Last time I looked I hadn't stated an opinion about whether I believed there was such a thing as climate change or whether man had an effect on his environment, so please don't assume that I've got things upside down - particularly when I've accused all sides equally.
For the record, yes the...
It is equally ridiculous to ignore anything that happened before the industrial revolution and to treat the human species as being somehow outside of nature.
Quite frankly there is a lot of guff in the general discussion about climate science. It seems to me that is has become more of a money...
Agriculture was cutting a swathe through countrysides long before the industrial revolution though - Britain would still be mostly forest (including the South Downs) if left to its own devices and the human species did not exist.