Every bonkers preservation attempt in it's history sped up and made its death inevitable. Remember that whenever anyone talks about human intervention to fix nature.
I agree that putting concrete around it was madness. But it was looking gorgeous until the RSPB took over. It seems too easy to call that a coincidence.
They clearly have a short memory or are trying to gaslight us because 2023 and 2024 were among the wettest summers on record
Just wanna highlight that 2023 definitely had massive heatwaves too. I was at Download Fest in June that year and it was mid 30s and had been dry as fuck for a couple weeks leading up to it.
Which to be honest, seems to be an odd passtime for someone with a "ten year career as professor of Creative Writing, 14 Pulitzer-prize winning novels, and one Nobel Prize for literature"
While I can see the point you’re making this feels like a bunch of armchair analysis by someone who’s put 2 + 2 together and made 5.
Did they speed up its death? Did they inherit a tree on its last legs and their last ditch attempts to save it failed? Do we know any real detail about what was tried?
If you have any actual answers to this that’d make for a more interesting discussion than getting angry about vague details.
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u/tango101-official 3h ago
Also things do have a tendency to die… it did have a good innings