Last night I went to a local Transition meeting: Transition is a network of local groups seeking to improve their communities environmental performance and awareness. It is a grass-roots movement that seeks to build momentum based on community interest and involvement and I am trying to do just that in my village. There were five people at a meeting that was intended to attract a crowd of locals and it was all quite depressing. The same is true of my village project: some people express an
Read more →The climate camp this weekend will have been full of environmental activists who are always at these events. The mainstream middle classes ignore them and/or despise them. Environmentalists have answers to how we need to change our lifestyles but talk among each other while the mainstream who need to act are not listening.
Read more →The originator of the Gaia theory says that environmentalists must stop ignoring population growth as a core issue in tackling our environmental problems. Population growth is bound to increase our damaging impacts but tackling our individual environmental footprints is easier and has a quicker effect than tackling population growth: both are needed, starting with ourselves.
Read more →We are all in this together: ‘environmentalists’ were campaigners who believed they saw a problem and tried to persuade people. Now the reality of environmental destruction is right in our faces and people who understand the pickle we are in can only help us to cope with an increasingly unpredictable climate. We ALL have a choice – A. Wake up and smell the coffee and work out how we can modify and improve our lifestyles so that we have a less negative impact on the environment
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