The Hive: no. 2
21.08.2023 - 11:48
/ theunconventionalgardener.com
/ Emma Doughty
If you read the news at the moment, it feels a bit as though a small number of people are trying to hold back the rampaging juggernaut that is the Climate Emergency (and the Biodiversity Emergency and the Plastic Pollution Emergency… perhaps we should just admit that there’s an Environmental Emergency). But now that I have started looking for positive (solarpunk) stories for The Hive, I am finding that there are lots. People all over the world are doing their bit (and, in many cases, much more) to help the planet. The idea of The Hive is to be uplifting and empowering and inspiring in the face of an issue so large that we can only solve it together.
To stop global catastrophe, we must believe in humans again. We have the technology to prevent climate crisis. But now we need to unleash mass resistance too – because collective action does work.
The owner of a caravan park in the Lake District is planting dozens of Scots pines to attract pine martens, after research has shown that these fearsome predators may be the key to saving the red squirrels. Driven to extinction in England 90 years ago, the pine marten has started to regain a foothold after crossing the border from Scotland. Pine nuts are a favourite food of red squirrels, and pine martens build nests in the trees. Pine martens are known to prey on grey squirrels, and may give red squirrels a fighting chance.
The UN has warned that the world’s soils are heading for exhaustion and depletion, with just 60 harvests remaining before they can no longer feed us. But more and more farmers are ditching the plough to save the soil, relying on keeping the ground covered with crops all year round and growing a wide variety of plants. Although farming this way involves more
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