In May 2022, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science released a paper that measured fourteen European countries on three factors: biodiversity, wellbeing, and nature connectedness. Ireland came second last in most categories.
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Posted by subaculture
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Full paper: [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-022-01744-w](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-022-01744-w)
You’re saying a bunch of fields for livestock and monoculture forests aren’t biodiverse?
The brits always at it.
Just saw a Wasp!
I’ll have to read the report but those results read like “jobs and economy bad”. Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria and Greece the highest “wellbeing”? Hmm
Ireland having terrible biodiversity is no surprise, unfortunately.
Not surprised.
Yeah but I’ve never once seen a cockroach here.
So I’ll take that as a win. Fucking hate those things.
So we came just behind Sweden and above the UK? Winning!
In fairness those cows have different patterns of black and white that should have counted for something.
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So….we’re marginally worse off than Sweden the land of smiles and rainbows.
Bit like the Eurovision really.