Everyone loves to blame agriculture for all environmental ills but the sector is trying to produce food for a population density that is environmentally unsustainable. And they're trying to do it within a market rigged by political controls and food retail monopolies. You can legislate farmers out of business or force them to become wildlife park wardens rather than food producers but that doesn't solve the problem, it merely off-shores it, just as it does with energy generation.There was a discussion a while back about there being fewer insects about...pesticides were mentioned, but there's also this...
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The Devastating Ecological Carnage Wrought by Wind Turbines – The Daily Sceptic
Evidence continues to grow that onshore wind turbines are causing heavy ecological carnage, with increasing concern focused on the removal of a vast tonnage of insect life, says Chris Morrison.dailysceptic.org
Basically, you can have one thousand people per square mile crammed into an orange-glowing island city, or you can have sustainable agriculture and clean energy. You can't have both.