but you know that there are "environmental campaigners" out there, people like george monbiot who looktainability and responsibility, and they say you know what, james rebanks is actually a hypocrite. because the kind of sheep farming that and he and his family... nobody has said that! well, the kind of sheep farming that you and your family have practised for years isn't really about respecting nature. you've created a particular environment which is a deeply man—made environment and which to people like monbiot, isn't respecting what this place could and should be. well, i don't think it's as good as it could or should be. i think you have to ask why that happens. so, why does it happen? because some of the poorest people in the north of england learn how to live in a landscape from sheep and cattle and they are not particularly ecologically literate. initially, they do a limited amount of harm because they just don't have the means to change it and then later on we give them other tools, and they start to make it quite difficult for nature. the question is how practically you get ou