The UK is one of the most nature depleted places on earth.
They killed/hunted all their predators.
I don’t doubt for a second that those two things are related.
And yeah we should drag colonization into it because while the UK ranks the bottom 10% of countries protecting nature, natives can claim being responsible for protecting 80% of ALL biodiversity
Our genocides are necessary for them to attack nature the way they do. Without our blood being spilled it wouldn’t be possible.
Look at Palestine and Sudan and the DRC and how Turtle Island tribes treat pipelines over the Mississippi River.
I think of the UK every fucking day. It’s the blueprint for colonizers. They want to do that every else too.
The UK barely even has wildflowers. Gone in my grandma’s lifetime.
Colonizers in general hunt or kill everything to extinction and then when it’s on its last legs the UK exploits them as class markers.
What you can learn about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) and it’s connection to human trafficking and pipelines in an afternoon will ruin you. And I won’t get into non;human things like elephant tusks being illegally trafficked.
There is no level of low colonizers haven’t reached because to colonize is to dehumanize everything that isn’t you. And if you have dehumanized something then you are not treating it humanely. You don’t care enough to.
Again, see how the indigenous populations are treated in the places I’ve mentioned.
It’s sick. Every one and every thing is simply there for the colonizer’s amusement and when it’s gone, well it didn’t really matter to them anyway because it wasn’t a colonizer like them. And they got a limited edition souvenir out of it. That’s what the struggle to stay alive is reduced to.
A knick knack in their house. Tribal drums and animal heads are no different from live, laugh, love signs.
I keep coming back to wondering whether colonizers even like being human. They’re so fucking determined to destroy everything that makes life worth living just to feel better than everyone else. It’s like hierarchy is their reason for living no matter how shitty the quality of life is.
And for what? When they did all their human and flora and fauna genocides what will all that death and destruction have been for? What’s the endgame you know? Like even for them?
Will they brag about having the last dreg of fresh air? Fresh fruit? Fresh water? Kill and backstab each other just to be the last one alive?
Will an empty planet finally be enough?
The UK an colonialism in general are genuine horrors to me as a human being who doesn’t see the people & environment around me as things I can treat however I want.