The Archdruid is back from vacation and hits the road running with an extra long and powerful post titled: The End of Ordinary Politics It is, as usual, easy to get lost in the flowery prose, but I can summarise the whole with just a few quotes for those who, like me, tire easily from... Continue Reading →
How Do You Eat An Elephant?
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Time to take a bite of the elephant. Which elephant? Let me explain. It is time for revolutionary politics and social progress, of that there is no doubt. The way we have been living is no way to live. We have allowed a small... Continue Reading →
Crapola, Crapola, Crapola
There is so much crap online these days in supposedly 'Clean, Green, Eco-aware, Environment-Friendly, Forward-Thinking, Concerned, Activist' sites like The Climate Reality Project, that the situation is unbelievable. Someone has to be kidding. That site should be called 'The Climate Con Project'. Do I sound like a denialist? Well, I am not. Quite the contrary. ... Continue Reading →
Reward For Effort
It has been over two months since I put some gardening pics up. A lot has changed in that time. Summer has been, wreaked havoc, and gone. A warm and milder Autumn is progressing. The plants have breathed a sigh of relief and are putting in extra effort to do their thing. Thankfully. If only... Continue Reading →
Kunstler Canned (How Long?)
Well it looks like Jim Kunstler's biting wit may have crossed one too many lines, ruffled too many feathers, got too close to niggling some sore nerve ending in some establishment haemorrhoidal breach of an anal wall in his truth-telling on the Great Nausea that is American politics. Such that someone has felt the need... Continue Reading →
So, Basically, We’re Trapped With No Way Out
I'm not going to say anything, other than pose the question - "When are people going to accept this and stop trying to fix climate change?" I will leave Bill McKibben to explain the situation: Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry. Not that he reaches the same conclusions as I do. No climate change expert does,... Continue Reading →
The Man Who Lives Without Money
Photo credit: The Man Who Lives Without Money. The Man Who Lives Without Money. I'm not recommending this as a course of action (since I am not prepared to do it myself, until I need to - although I have given the idea consideration), but it is clear to me that one day we all... Continue Reading →
Today I Mourn The World
So, what's so special about today? Nothing really, or nothing that I am aware of. Except that every day is special in its own way. No, I mourn the world pretty much every day. I can remember when life was simple. It didn't stay that way for long but during my early years when there... Continue Reading →
Millennial Disengagement
"Have millennials given up on democracy?" Asks The Guardian Photo credit: Young people demonstrate in Lyon against a new labour code they called ‘an unprecedented offensive against the young’. Photograph: Konrad K/Sipa/Rex Shutterstock "...young adults are deeply sceptical about democracy". They should be. Except that perhaps the system they are basing that opinion on is... Continue Reading →
