Mark Bevis on Chris’s Substack

I like the idea that you've considered learning Welsh, sounds like a challenge just as difficult as that peak would be for me to climb :) Regarding your first point, an article by Ugo Bardi came through at the same time which has an interesting analysis of human reaction: https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/can-we-stop-the-wave-of-evil I don't take much notice of the farmer-clown farmer debate, in essence we're all cosplaying capitalism (farmers or not) because the vast majority of us certainly ain't getting rich by it! Removing a city trader for each farmer lost - is that something like a 1000 a week across all of Europe? Luckily the collapse of global industrial civilisation is going to remove most city traders fairly soon. Welsh hills can be as fertile as anywhere else - see Elizabeth West's book Hovel in the Hills - it just takes extreme composting and planting shelter belts.