By Paul Homewood
The headline in the Mail says it all:
A mile down the road from a hush-hush CIA base where US special forces train for anti-terrorist operations by blowing the hell out of buildings, cars and planes, there’s a far more shocking scene of devastation.
Some 280 acres of once pristine and ecologically-important wetland forest – a mix of oak, maple, hickory, cypress and pine – have disappeared, torn out as if by a marauding monster. All that’s left is a bleak expanse of boggy pools of water and pulverised pieces of wood.
It’s eerily reminiscent of photographs of No Man’s Land at the Battle of the Somme – only with the addition of several large piles of logs that the men who harvested the lumber from this remote north-eastern corner of North Carolina in November 2023 couldn’t even be bothered to take with them and left to rot.
It speaks forcefully about man’s thoughtless and greedy destruction of natural resources and yet the company behind this ‘clearcut’ – as areas where every tree is removed are known – claims it is actually providing clean, green energy to the world. And to Britain in particular.
Read the full story here.
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February 17, 2025 at 03:16AM
