Long term nature restoration and community prosperity come from sustainable and resilient community ownership models, not absentee ownership based on speculative finances which have to serve shareholders and creditors, not nature restoration or local community development.

The land market boomed for some years off the back of natural capital purchases like this, it’s now sluggish, with suggestion of the bubble bursting. Perhaps not the best time to sell land, to raise cash, to payback land acquisition loans. scotsman.com/news/rewilding…

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Flights across much of the country would immediately shut down.

“Independence increased tensions between the Highlands and Islands and richer Central Belt”. The Highlands and Islands could do the funniest possible thing ever in the early days of an independent Scotland.

*Spitballing around the conference table on where to launch our campaign on decentralising power from Edinburgh.* “How about Edinburgh?”

Boy dinner.

Blowy day on the north coast with onshore wind generation being curtailed. Caithness and north Sutherland produces around 1,300% of its electricity demand from large onshore wind. Annual curtailed wind generation here would power 200% of the area’s domestic and industry needs.

Four out of five key area’s of Scotland’s new green industrial strategy will be largely driven out of Scotland’s rural and coastal communities, and rural and coastal/offshore resources.

No new nuclear, 100% renewable electricity by 2020, Wave Energy Scotland, Crown Estate Scotland leasing, Renewables Obligation, etc etc. Energy is reserved but Scot Gov absolutely has energy policy (and Cabinet Sec) in Scotland with hugely impactful legal levers.

Academics love to frame standard professional practices as annoying quirks of the university sector.

No consideration of the just transition, Santa Claus severely impacted. Naughty children across the UK rejoicing. Christmas degraded. Shambles.

If we ditched half of the Scottish population found within ten miles of the M8 we could share the benefits between the fewer people who lived closer to the resources.

Watching flamingos ride a monorail and water slides sounds great actually.