The dangers posed by the urbanization of the countryside are of considerable relevance not only to the environmental/green movement but to the Animal protection movement. Rural urbanization will bring about a huge deterioration in the conditions in which livestock Animals are kept; cause an increase in the scale of damage to Wildlife habitats; and lead to an even greater decimation of Wildlife. It is surprising that instead of supporting Reforestation schemes in abandoned rural areas, many greens wanted to push people back into the countryside and cover it in cement. There is a similar tactical disaster in the Animal protection movement. Despite the fact that, at the moment, the desertion of the countryside creates a wonderful opportunity to increase the scale and number of Wilderness areas in which Wildlife would be free from ooman barbarism, many Animal protectionists also support the urbanization of the countryside.

What makes the urbanization of the countryside even worse is that urban people would end up assimilating rural values i.e. not merely rearing livestock but supporting hunting, shooting, and fishing. At the very least, it would increase the numbers of people with the opportunity to slaughter Wildlife. The urbanization of the countryside would thus have a detrimental impact both on Animals and on the level of support for Animal protection.

Born in 1919, lovelock was brought up in one of the country’s most highly urbanized areas, brixton - which was then roughly equivalent to what we would now recognize as village life. As a schoolboy he’d go for long walks and cycle rides through the surrounding countryside. After his marriage he bought a holiday home in the countryside and, over the decades, came to spend more and more time living there until he was commuting to work in urban areas. After living for a while in america in the early 1960s the family moved back to england and once again took up residence in the countryside. The move to the countryside was a little odd. Although he loved the countryside he had no interest in becoming a pharmer.[155] In fact, he didn’t even like gardening. “I was no gardener at all; indeed, i detest gardening.”[156] Of course, once living in the countryside, he had to face up to the consequences of living there without local employment. This meant having a car to commute to work. Even if he had the luxury of living close to a rail station he still needed a car for everything else. The less rural villages become, the greater villagers’ dependence on a car. Here was an individual who was well aware of the damage that cars were causing around the world and yet he put himself in a position where he had to have a car in order to survive.

The radicals also persuade them to modify their obsession with public transport in an area of scattered dwellings where, even with neighbours sharing lifts, cars are essential, and where the rationing by price of a carbon tax is unacceptable unless combined with a rationing by need scheme favouring areas such as this at the same time as certain classes of individuals. Thus the need is for simple, limited range, electrically powered runabouts connecting to public transport points. (Dulas Engineering, a small firm in West Wales, is in fact developing a rural car)."[158]