Susan Harvard

Practises Semi-wilding.Loves landscape, meadows, scrub, trees, bugs, butterflies, birds & beasties. Keeps sheep, chickens & ducks. Author of 'Theodore & Eliza'.

[Susan Harvard @Harvasue]

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[Susan Harvard @Harvasue]

Why Pylons? If or, more likely, when the AMOC no longer works, any overhead power lines will be susceptible to icing up and failure. The UK sits at the same latitude as St. Petersburg. Remember how fortunate we 🦋🪲☘️🪸🌻🦗are to have the kindly Gulf Stream.

[Susan Harvard @Harvasue]

I've just signed this petition. Will you add your name and share too?
https://t.co/UreoW1gyrv via @38degrees

[Susan Harvard @Harvasue]

@SymondsSally @KemiBadenoch @RobertJenrick How rude, how unfair, how untrue.

[Susan Harvard @Harvasue]

@georgecmcgavin Its the tidy brigade again, human centric, not looking at the environment with bug eyes. People love flowers, so gov. pays farmers to grow large expanses of mixed flowers for pollinators. No requirement for food plants for caterpillars, soft earth or woody hedges for pupating.

[Susan Harvard @Harvasue]

I'm calling on the Government to take immediate action to reverse butterfly declines.

Sign the petition:

https://t.co/7nMcqDbXVe

[Susan Harvard @Harvasue]

Butterfly disaster!Yes, weather is a big factor. But subsidised mitigation measures are counter-productive.
pollen-rich, flower-filled fields attract widely but provide no larval food; headlands are barren and compressed and hedgerows are rapidly diminishing. Where to pupate ?

[Susan Harvard @Harvasue]

Welfare was intended to help those in greatest need. Those who could afford, paid for medical help and education. Higher Taxes soon threw more onto the state. These became the new 'entitled'. Higher tax = higher burden. Political dogma leaves the needy needy, and all worse off

[Susan Harvard @Harvasue]

@darrengrimes If there's only one God and 'their' name is Allah, Jehovah or God, does it matter how their devotees pray? The books were written by human hands and rules set by man. Most pray to God at a crisis point, not at fixed times,places or orientation. The child can still pray sans dogma

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

A dad told me last night that his twelve-year-old and his mates have started laughing at the appalling trans propaganda constantly thrust down their throats at school by deluded adults.
Good. This is healthy. Kids and sane adults need to push back against this wicked political ideology.

[David Ullrich @DavidUllrich202]

Giant desert solar farms might have unintended climate consequences

The world’s most forbidding deserts could be the best places on Earth for harvesting solar power — the most abundant and clean source of energy we have. Deserts are spacious, relatively flat, rich in silicon — the raw material for the semiconductors from which solar cells are made — and never short of sunlight. In fact, the 10 largest solar plants around the world are all in deserts or dry regions.

Researchers imagine it might be possible to transform the world’s largest desert, the Sahara, into a giant solar farm, capable of meeting four times the world’s current energy demand. Blueprints have been drawn up for projects in Tunisia and Morocco that would supply electricity for millions of households in Europe.

While the black surfaces of solar panels absorb most of the sunlight that reaches them, only a fraction (around 15 %) of that incoming energy gets converted to electricity. The rest is returned to the environment as heat. The panels are usually much darker than the ground they cover, so a vast expanse of solar cells will absorb a lot of additional energy and emit it as heat, affecting the climate.

If these effects were only local, they might not matter in a sparsely populated and barren desert. But the scale of the installations that would be needed to make a dent in the world’s fossil energy demand would be vast, covering thousands of square kilometers. Heat re-emitted from an area this size will be redistributed by the flow of air in the atmosphere, having regional and even global effects on the climate.

https://t.co/eBSNT73wmC

https://t.co/Z7MdsTEc65

[Susan Harvard @Harvasue]

@JustStop_Oil @NationalGallery They would have got the vote without slashing the Rokeby Venus. The Tide of history flowed in that direction. Womens rights issues were many. One woman joined the suffragists when her bag was stolen and in the ensuing court case was described as property of her husband.😅

[Susan Harvard @Harvasue]

@JustStop_Oil The courts "lock people up" not the Government.
So many agree with the ethos of stopping oil; but your actions are counter productive. Just another bunch of attention-seeking narcissists who like to see themselves as the saviours. Take a pocket of Haws and acorns- go scatter 🦋🦎

[Susan Harvard @Harvasue]

@Anna_Dillon Musk will bust Twitter. Part of buying a business is the brand. The name probably represents 50% of his outlay. If the bird croaks I will Xit.

[Susan Harvard @Harvasue]

@WaterVole And they are probably insecticide carriers too. Spot flea and tick drops pollute the waterways.☹️

[Susan Harvard @Harvasue]

Saddened😥 to find that @morrisons state that their "the Best"scallops are "Wild caught off the British coastline and hand-shucked by us". They should know by now how damaging scallop dredging is. The rope grown scallop really is "The Best" for the environment and the plate.🦀🐬

[Susan Harvard @Harvasue]

@MrsD39176318 @TVP_Oxford Yes they would, if public complained. Quite right too. But WE none of us know the facts. I have had to steel myself to kill birds to prevent suffering: pigeon eaten alive, left on the cobbles of a London Mews by a peregrine. Heap mischief from Social media sharing in ignorance🤐

[Susan Harvard @Harvasue]

@georgecmcgavin Some good news, the rain has brought out the bugs, moths and butterflies. >6marbled whites. in our semi-wilder patch.

[Susan Harvard @Harvasue]

@OurSacredGrove The trailer had me in tears so I avoided the programme🥲