‘People are... difficult to live with and bothersome’

I have been watching videos by Cecilia Blomdahl, a woman who lives on Svalbard, a Norwegian island in the Arctic Circle. I love them, and it seems I’m not alone in that – she has 1.12 million subscribers.

The island is beautiful, and Cecilia makes beautiful videos. Just today I watched her go with her boyfriend to their off-grid cabin, which is in a remote part of the island, surrounded only by snow and water and mountains. It’s simply idyllic.

We love nature, and rightly so. God has made a beautiful world. So I was not surprised to read this week that efforts to rewild Britain are gathering momentum, and public support is growing for government schemes aiming to increase biodiversity, reintroduce lost wildlife and regenerate wild places such as wetlands. Woodlands are being encouraged to grow, trees are being planted. Ecosystems are being rebuilt.