We are, as a species, finding it increasingly hard to imagine that we are part of something which is larger than our own capacity. We have come to accept a heresy of aloofness, a humanist belief in human difference, and we suppress wherever possible the checks and balances on us – the reminders that the world is greater than us or that we are contained within it. On almost every front, we have a turning away from felt relationship with the natural world.*
Robert Macfarlane

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realise, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.**
Alanis Obomsawim

How’s the universe’s great experiment of
consciousness working out? –
Here on this blue planet hanging in space, most species
seem to be doing okay, except
for one – the one that
is capable of providing words for
what is happening to Earth, the one that
knows how it’s happened and how to
begin sorting it out, but also the one that
resists;
Steven Pressfield writes that Resistance asks
two questions of us:
How bad do you want it?
Why do you want it?^ –
He goes on to suggest that
when it comes to the first, we need
full commitment, and for the second,
We must admit to having
no other choice – whilse also wanting
fun and beauty^^ …
For our children?
For our greater body, the Earth?
To keep the great experiment rolling?

A few places to play?:
The Carbon Almanac and it’s daily blog,
Trendwatching, too.

*Robert Macfarlane’s The Wild Places;
**Seth Godin’s The Carbon Almanac;
^Steven Pressfield’s Do the Work;
^^I hope that our solutions to climate change will be replete with fun and beauty – the sooner we start the more likely this will be.