hell yeah Dublin!

I agree re: accidentally transporting ash dieback fungus between woods and things like that, but I also think that the idea of the “unspoiled wildness” where no human has ever gone is a product of colonialism, as recent studies have demonstrated that most of what has been considered “unspoiled wildness” such as the prairies in the USA and even the Amazon Forest in Brasil and neighbouring countries, not to mention the PNW rainforests were actually sites of heavy human-nature interactions and even of deliberate cultivation of mutually beneficial relationships between plants, animals and humans. It was unspoiled only as far as westernised land ownership and exploitation patterns were not evident.

I believe that while education and respect for fragile and fragilised environments is absolutely necessary, the negative effects of the exclusion of humans from nature far outweigh the positives.

Also, the Duchy of Cornwall is not in any shape or form a community, it’s a landlord from an aristocratic system of land tenure which deliberately excluded communities from the land they held in common through dispossession, enclosure and displacement.

Here is some info on the Duchy of Cornwall -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Cornwall

I think that the Justice of an aristocrat-led transition that reinforces private land ownership is debatable.

Hell yeah, but will it be free to access?

I have been following the Right 2 Roam campaign here in the UK since they started last winter and they make a compelling case for the right to access to nature which in the UK is severely compromised by landlord rights (and most of them are aristocrats or what in other countries would be called oligarchs).

IMO if the relationship between people and nature is not restored through contact and experiential learning, people won’t be able to steward it in the future.