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My world is very small. I’ve not travelled much and not at all beyond Welsh, Scots, Irish and English shores. Yet, I think the parish of Llannefydd, where I’ve lived and worked since 1975, provides an accurate-enough microcosm of anywhere … Continue reading →

Here are the committee’s findings with regards to economic changes required for a zero-carbon emitting UK by 2050 . • Resource and energy efficiency and some societal choices that cut demand for carbon-intensive activities. . • Extensive electrification, particularly of … Continue reading →

Nemesis was our consumer-choice. The bargain was struck. We paid for her and she is ours. We bought the present by selling the future. Our purchase cannot be passed back – please read the small print in Nemesis’s Little Earthly … Continue reading →

My passions rise at the sound of the middle class – a million or so of them – marching to protect lucrative ways of life – their property price collateral, and rents for status, money, land and intellectual properties. Those … Continue reading →

Have we evolved a consensus for a mass, hysterical psychopathy? Certainly, we have lost sympathy with the passage of human time – with the human consequences of our actions and of course, with other species besides… It is no coincidence … Continue reading →

That commons, ordinary household morals, religions and regional cultures themselves, have been a thorn in the foot of the oil state, is apparent in its wars and propagandas – witnessed in the once-stable and beautiful cultures of Syria, Iran and … Continue reading →

The factions gather & swell in an entirely human tumult. As the poet says – the worst in passionate intensity call others to the fold. Meanwhile, the ways of life of opposing factions have similar effects, because their ways of … Continue reading →