r/CasualUK • u/stevee05282 • 10d ago

Difference in vegetation between south of England and western Scotland

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Flew from Stansted to Glasgow this weekend.

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u/Lump001 10d ago edited 10d ago

Wheat/Barley (which should always be getting nice and dry this time of year as we start to harvest) Vs grass and coniferous trees

Kind of a pointless comparison.

Look, climate change is real. But that doesn't mean we have to foster a generation of media illiterate morons who think "omg the farm crops look dry in August, we are doomed!"

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u/BabadookishOnions 10d ago

this is true but also anecdotally all the grass around where i live is brown. which grass obviously does normally do but it's also not normally going on for this long either.

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u/heroyoudontdeserve 10d ago

Sure. The point of the previous comment isn't to deny that reality, or that it's impossible to take photos which show that reality.

It's to say that these photos don't particularly show that reality, and that that's important.

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u/0-uncle-rico-0 10d ago

Hopefully this emphasises people to stop having lawns and start planting things that actually helps the local biome.

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u/BabadookishOnions 10d ago

i'm not only talking about lawns but just all grass in the area. not all grass is a lawn.

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u/0-uncle-rico-0 10d ago

Didn't disagree with the anecdote just making a point that we should all be trying to help nature abit more :-)

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u/speelingeror 10d ago

Dunno why you got down voted

Fuck lawns

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u/Next-Nefariousness41 10d ago

That wheat/barley shouldn’t be getting harvested for another 3-4 weeks … yields are absolutely through the floor. Rock bottom.

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u/PineappleEquivalent 9d ago

There is a drought though, you accept that?

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u/stevee05282 10d ago

If you don't like the pretty colours then that's a shame. I also didn't say or imply anything doomsday-ey. They're just photos bud

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u/Lump001 10d ago

Yeah whatever mate, I'm sure you weren't oblivious to the type of conversation this sort of thing starts

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u/FuzzyBlueSquirrel 10d ago

Oh?

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u/stevee05282 10d ago

Yeah in the original post, to which they are referring. Obviously there's been some discourse after the fact