MM #8: Timeline

I often have compared this period to a fireworks show: dazzling, unusual, and temporary. The sky conditions during a fireworks show make for a poor predictive model of weather conditions for the coming days, weeks, or months. Fireworks shows end—about as quickly as they began.

Any Human Power: Excerpt

‘Now is the time and we are the people. We’re being pushed over the edge of extinction by people who don’t get it and don’t care and we—’ she surged to her feet— ‘we are better than this.’ A hand slammed hard with each word. ‘So let’s bring the best of ourselves to the table, agree where we want to go and find ways to make it happen. Thank you.’

MM #7: Ecological Nosedive

I stress again that we are not separate from, above, or transcendent beyond our extended living family. That seems to be the default and utterly foolish notion pervading our culture, based on a brief fireworks show of excessive and unsustainable inheritance-spending that is in the process of setting up catastrophic failure—and for more than just humans.

Saving Seeds for Climate Justice

As a small research team of activists, practitioners and early career researchers participating in the British Council Farming for Climate Justice Programme we set out to learn more about the potential role of farmer-led and community-saved seeds in realising just climate resilience.