Welcome to Plymouth Green and Science Book Club's January event. Our Zoom meeting this month will discuss the book by Guy Shrubsole. The book was hailed a 'Waterstones and Guardian Best Book of 2024' and shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards.
Topics covered include: outlawing driven grouse shooting; democratising land ownership; setting up a Public Nature State; levying a carbon land tax; ending pheasant releases; letting the public become whistleblowers for nature; creating a right of responsible access to nature; making National Parks serve the interests of nature and the nation; putting in place a land use framework for England and opening up data on land; creating an Ecological Domesday Survey; holding large landowners to account.
Book synopsis (Amazon.co.uk): Our landowning elite are paid billions of taxpayer pounds to be good stewards. But these same landowners have carelessly trampled over our best-loved landscapes, leaving the rivers polluted, fenlands drained and moorlands burned. Guy Shrubsole has travelled across Britain to expose the lie and meet the communities fighting back to restore our lost landscapes. This is a bold, shared vision for our nation’s wild places, and how we can treat them with the awe and care they deserve.
Interviews of various lengths with the author answering questions on his book can be found online. It is not essential to have read the book to join in the discussion.
