
The Killing Fields
Wildlife in Britain keeps losing to land economics, and this film argues that a change in taxation could fix that. Economist Fred Harrison presents the case for a Land Value Tax, walking through how current land use rules and subsidies push farmers and landowners toward intensive agriculture and away from conservation, since wild habitat generates no taxable income under the present system. Peter Smith, founder and CEO of the Wildwood Trust, explains what that pressure looks like on the ground for British wildlife, while Duncan Pickard, a working farmer, gives the landowner's side of the calculation: what it costs to leave land wild versus farming it. Environmental barrister Polly Higgins brings the legal angle, connecting the tax proposal to broader questions of who is accountable for ecological damage. Director Carlo Nero, working with the team behind the land-value advocacy group Geophilos, keeps the film's focus narrow and specific: not conservation in general, but the tax mechanism its interviewees believe could make protecting land more profitable than destroying it.