9 July

I learned this from the Australian biologist Tim Low. Which of these two locations has the greatest biodiversity? The city, or the bush? Answer: the city. Hands down. The bush is a wasteland, created by agriculture. I remember posting once about how city and country are not two things. Property development in cities gradually pushed all agricultural activity out to the fringes, which we then called the ‘bush’. Animals and plants had no chance of surviving modern agriculture, so moved to the city.