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 a name 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.