People like you.
“People like you don’t understand the countryside.”
It’s a sentence that ends conversations before they even begin.
When it comes to disagreements on issues such as hunting, farming, rural tradition or rewilding, most of us don’t start with facts – we start with identity.
Town vs country. Left vs right. Tradition vs change.
Lines get drawn. Sides get chosen and suddenly, it’s not about the issue anymore, it’s personal - it's about 'people like you.'
In this episode, we step beyond tribal labels, past the lazy assumptions, and into the conversations we’ve stopped having.
Additional info
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This episode of At The Edge was produced in partnership with Adventurous Audio, [https://www.adventurousaudio.co.uk/] and kindly supported by Ballintean Mountain Lodge. [https://ballintean.co.uk/]
Useful links
Visit Colin Murdoch at Reraig Forest [https://reraigforest.co.uk/].
Learn about the Cairngorms Crofters & Farmers Community. [https://www.cairngormscroftersfarmers.org/]
Learn about The Centre for Good Relations [https://centreforgoodrelations.com/].
Meet Sam Tedcastle [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-tedcastle-1858321b/], Matt Hay [https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthay44/], Hugh Webster [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugh-webster-706a8a202/], Ruaridh Ormiston [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruaridh-ormiston-6b40832a/] and Julius Purcell. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/julius-purcell-6760361a/]
I'd thoroughly recommend three podcasts [https://rewilding.org/episode-158-europes-big-three-wolves-bears-lynx-part-1-the-wolfs-uneasy-return-to-germany/] hosted by Julius Purcell as part of the Rewilding Earth series, in which he explores the resurgence of wolf, bear and Iberian lynx in Europe.
