The UK is meant to be covered in sense woodland. Saying this land can't support people without livestock is like saying g you:be given up all hope I'm science providing a solution. I'm sure with the right machinery and selective breeding the UK could grow a tonne of different crops on this so called 'marginal' land. We used to have a thriving cobnut industry here for example. And let's not forget what the majority of these livestock are fed on, normally feed based on soy grown elsewhere. Growing up in a farming region I've seen how reliant the dairy industry is on this feed. And what about hemp? Hemp is a very hardy crop, infact it's grown in Devon to produce oil on land that used to be dairy pasture. I wonder which one has the biggest impact on the environment.... And what about dairy subsidy? Milk is sold at loss, remove the subsidy and how economically viable really is it?

Don't laugh! :-) This reminds me of Dr. Paul LaViolette's theory on extraterrestial beacons in outerspace.

"Our modern society is dependent on accurate timekeeping, which is why we rely on atomic clocks to give the correct time for use with the myriad of timekeeping devices we use today. Just as we rely on atomic clocks for split-second accuracy, they in turn are set using pulsars. First discovered in 1967, pulsars are rotating neutron stars that emit electromagnetic radiation in the form of radio waves. According to LaViolette, pulsars are not naturally occurring objects, but rather, they represent an intelligent design. One intended for timekeeping, navigation and which serves as a faster-than-light warning system for events called galactic superwaves. At best, these superwaves are an annoyance to industrialized societies. At worst, they can and do trigger extinction level events (ELE). LaViolette tells that there have already been numerous ELE cataclysms on Earth and that our planet is now moving into the cross-hairs of yet another."

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Dr. Paul LaViolette has written four books and has published many original papers in physics, astronomy, climatology, systems theory, and psychology. He received his BA in physics from Johns Hopkins, his MBA from the University of Chicago, and PhD from Portland State University, and is currently president of the Starburst Foundation, an interdisciplinary scientific research institute. He is the developer of subquantum kinetics, a novel approach to microphysics that accounts for electric, magnetic, gravitational, and nuclear forces in a unified manner and resolves many long-standing physics problems. Based on the predictions of this theory, he developed an alternative cosmology that effectively replaces the big bang theory."

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