Alt text: A picture of an older smiling white man with long curly white hair is holding his jacket open, revealing a vest, tie and a gold medal around his neck. The text reads: In 2013, Brian May of Queen bought 157 acres of land that was about to be developed into buildings. He planted trees with the help of volunteers and restored it into a thriving woodland. The area is called “May’s Woodland” and has over 100,000 trees growing there.
I’m not sure planting forests instead of housing is always a win for the environment. If the land is in a place where people can take sustainable transportation to their jobs, you should put dense housing there. Or else people will have to drive around your suburban forest.
But in the Brain May case, I have no clue where the forest is
I don’t know much about the pros Vs cons of woods Vs housing, but I do know that the woods are in an area of the UK where badger culling (ostensibly to reduce levels of bovine TB) is common, and also that the land used to be agricultural. May has a history of campaigning to prevent the killing of British wildlife such as hedgehogs, foxes, badgers and more.
Badgers are especially relevant in this context. They are carriers but bovine-TB is always present in the environment. Whilst there can be transmission between badgers and cows, the majority of cases in farmed cattle are cattle-cattle transmission. Badger culling has not been shown to be necessary or useful in reducing outbreaks of bovine-TB. A better solution is more eyes on agriculture.
I don’t know more specifics of this forest, but I’m inclined to take a favourable view of the project in this case, especially as the pro-culling rhetoric around Badger culling irks me. I’m also vaguely aware of a bunch of reforestation projects in the UK and this seems like a sensible place for a forest (with the caveat that I’m a biochemist with only a superficial knowledge of what’s going on in ecological activism in the UK atm)
Good question but it turns out it is not occupying the kind of location you suggested. Being a physicist he probably considered this
I’m not stating whether he considered it or not, but Brian May being good at one thing (physics) doesn’t mean he’s good at other things.
At least two things tho, physics and music
And hair
Yessss pure lemmycomment
the only Astrophysicist in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame
I see a little silhouetto of a man, scaramouche, plant a bush, will you do the right thing yo?
Sycamore and Larches trees!
Aloevera alovera aloe ver-ooooo
Please don’t post pictures with text without transcribing the text. Blind people cannot read thus post.
Alt text: A picture of an older smiling white man with long curly white hair is holding his jacket open, revealing a vest, tie and a gold medal around his neck. The text reads: In 2013, Brian May of Queen bought 157 acres of land that was about to be developed into buildings. He planted trees with the help of volunteers and restored it into a thriving woodland. The area is called “May’s Woodland” and has over 100,000 trees growing there.
Sorry, ideally I would but don’t have the time so it is either a picture without text or no post. Vision impaired people aren’t catered to either way so I have not inconvenienced them by posting.
Soon enough bots will do it for us.
https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.subhamtyagi.ocr/
It takes literally seconds.
In 2013, Brian May of Queen bought 157 acres of land that was about to be developed into buildings. He planted trees with the help of volunteers and restored it into a thriving woodland. The area is called “May’s Woodland” and has over 100,000 trees growing there.
Thank you for sharing this tool, it’s a new thing to me. I’ve been working on incorporating the inclusion of image descriptions into my regular practice (such as adding alt text for images I share in group chats, not just posts that I intend to share more widely). I appreciate your suggestion here - it looks like it will be useful in making that more of a reliable habit
Then please delete your post. You’re doing harm.
Lol what
