On 26/02/2021 21:38, Graham Easterling wrote:
My own personal view is that plastic pollution may end up being more devastating than climate change.

Plastic pollution is a huge and global issue. It worries me far more
than climate change.

Habitat destruction around the world is now common place. The River
Otter suffers from flooding. Many reasons for this and one of them is
probably not 'climate change'.

Our rivers have been straightened and narrowed over 1000s of years for
farming instead of being allowed to meander thus accelerating flow and
bank erosion. River valleys have been cleared of trees and modern
farming techniques are compacting and reducing soil quality/capacity to
absorb water.

Global deforestation is our biggest crime against this planet.

At the last general election a policy was put forward to plant 2 billion
trees in Britain. It was widely ridiculed by the main stream media
including the BBC. That says it all.

We should be reforesting Britain, especially the uplands where the trees
will hold back water, releasing it slowly in the winter to prevent
flooding and this water reserve will prevent low river levels in the
summer (another problem).

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Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalleyweather.me.uk