Is it just me or does this, basically, say something along the lines of:
"Me and a few other decent chaps I met at boarding school wanted to save the earth by messing about in Scotland. When we got there one of the little people told us our plan wouldn't work but he had one that might. We ignored him. We've all taken a good pile of cash from this for ourselves and now, it seems, maybe the little person we met on the first day we went up there was right after all as our plan has been a disaster. Of course we can't admit we are wrong so we are going to have a timescale for our objectives of 200 years. By that time we will have lined our pockets, be long since dead and so we have no real need to care about the long term outcome. In a while, when we get fed up with this game and move on to interfering in something else, we will all walk away leaving this estate and the neighbours in an awful mess that the little man we met on the first day will have to sort it out and we will ensure he also gets all the blame. Oh what jolly japes, anyone know of any other committees looking good reliable sort of chaps who will always say the the right thing as members? We only charge a few hundred thousand per year each."