This is an Ancient and Noble country. Pastoral communities live with and for our lands.
Our lands are filled with our ancestors' cultural history, and these Straths, Hills and Forests are rich with our highly natural supporting infrastructure which sustains our pastoral way of life. Turning these lands into brownfield sites denies nature's survival and strips away our Sense of Place; our Right Place. This development would be in The Wrong Place, in every sense. This is environmental colonialism.
The current economic and business paradigms are based on exploiting people and nature. Among the fundamental flaws of these paradigms are a belief in limitless growth, short-term thinking, a narrow-focus on maximising profits for shareholders, and the externalisation of social, health and environmental costs onto society. At the core, this is a moral and economic failure: a case where the wealth of exported power is built upon the ruin of another; where the luxury of a few depends on the sacrifice of many and where damages and pollutions become the weapons of inequality. But our voices have emerged, and are also towering.
We will turn the tides of exploitation and inequality into cries for justice for communities and for Scotland. We are bold and fearless and in this way we 'Embody Conscience'. We are riddled with corruption. This noble country has been colonised and our wealth is being extracted (again).
These corporates have no authority to tell communities anything about financing of the climate, or about why we fall into fuel poverty or about why we don't have enough. We will be the first to fail under this regime. We are being made the victims of corporate overreach. We might be a small nation but we refuse to be a Sacrifice Zone.
We want to charter a path for our survival, and for the survival of us all. In this process we could embrace what true leadership should look like. This is the realty and truth of the Renewables irrational and irresponsible unplanned industrialisation of Scotland and it's Islands.
