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and I worry that the spare land might get filled up with monoculture energy crops. But that
depends upon what the vegans decide to do with it, and that is not really for me to say.
When these scenarios were originally published I invited vegans to outline their own vision
of what could done with the large areas of UK land that would be liberated or abandoned,
quent issue of
The Land
, where she suggested that 10 million hectares would be dedicated
to woodland, one million to berries and nuts, and 3.8 million to wildlife conservation and
'wildland'.
That is not to say that the people's choice has to be either one thing or the other. Vegan
and livestock land use systems can coexist well enough side by side, as long as boundaries
are drawn and fences maintained. Instead of being strictly vegan or enthusiastically car-
nivore, it is entirely possible to have a level of compromise between the two approaches
outlined in Tables F and G, and indeed that is more likely.
TABLE H: LOW MEAT & BIOENERGY
Including extra veg, textiles, tractor power and timber
• 10 million hectares arable
• 3 million hectares of pasture
• 7 million hectares of woodland
• 2.2 million spare hectares
Population 60.6 million. Total agriculture and forestry land 22.205 million ha.
• One hectare of arable, plus 0.3 hectares of pasture supplies 6.6 people
Minimal Livestock/Bioenergy
After the foregoing projections were published in
The Land
magazine in 2008, the
Centre for Alternative Energy (CAT) at Machynlleth published a first draft of Zero Carbon
Britain, an alternative energy strategy for the country, in which they offer a projection for a
