"What are you doing?" After his initial surprise, Red-Haired turned and asked Morgans.
"We're fulfilling a promise." Ivankov explained to Red-Haired and the others with a smug smile at the corner of his mouth.
"We, the Revolutionary Army, promised that everyone would have a home, everyone would have clothes to wear, and everyone would be able to eat meat."
"Although our strength is still insufficient, and we can't yet give everyone in the world such a life, we can at least ensure that our own Revolutionary Army soldiers have homes to live in, clothes to wear, and meat to eat."
And this was precisely the construction of homes for Revolutionary Army soldiers.
Honestly, since there was relatively little farmland, they could only find a solution in the clouds. But with the Iron Cloud compressors, vast habitable areas had been carved out of the cloud layer, even reducing the waters where fish could move within the Sea of Clouds. It counted as a different kind of land reclamation, but there was no need for human habitation to yield to animals.
This had always been the Revolutionary Army's philosophy. Animal and environmental protection were indeed important, but only so long as they did not threaten human survival.
Otherwise, the laws of every nation would not contain provisions for emergency necessity.
When an animal was about to eat you, would you still be thinking about protecting animals? Was something wrong with you?
At its root, humanity protected the environment and animals in order to live better and more comfortably, not to make its own life more miserable by yielding space to animals. If one failed to grasp that core principle, it was easy to put the cart before the horse, just like Northern Europe in Leo's era.
Leo was reclaiming land now for