A good, concise summary of the socio-economic reality of Scottish rewilding in yesterday’s Scotsman (paywalled, also on Apple News). In spite of these issues being raised again and again for years, I am yet to hear any of the Scottish rewilders to even acknowledge them. Mind you, they do get rather worked up when someone is planting the ‘wrong kind of’ trees, or, increasingly, planting trees at all. Ideologies are powerful, reality distorting, mind numbing, conscience silencing things, that’s for sure. And as I said before, the inherent misanthropy of rewilding and the sociopathy of extreme wealth are a match made in heaven.