Goodbye ‘Great Reset’ ( and good riddance!)  Hello,  Great Rebirth In previous blogs I have argued that the fundamental reason we are destroying ourselves and the beautiful planet we inhabit is because we think everyone and everything exists to serve us and our needs.  This is actually narcissism. Life is seen as an endless and reckless struggle for Continue reading

“For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.” John Maynard Keynes No, no, no,  John Maynard.   Fair Continue reading

The Scottish Government is launching a consultation on a new initiative called Community Wealth Building (inevitably shortened to CWB). According to the website ( https://consult.gov.scot/economic-development/community-wealth-building-consultation/ ), “CWB is an approach designed to tackle long-standing economic challenges and transform Scotland’s local and regional economies by considering the ways in which the public sector, in partnership with Continue reading

The power of words:  do we have agency or are we all doomed? According to the Buddha, we have six sense organs:  eyes (vision); ears (sound); nose (smell); mouth (taste); skin (touch); and not least a brain to process the electrical and chemical information received.   It is the brain that ‘makes sense’ of its Continue reading

Is it climate change? Is it human greed? How can we ‘be the change’ if we don’t know what that change has to be – or if the change is too uncomfortable to contemplate? It’s easy to feel despair and powerless – the present moment feels so awful that we can’t even think straight about Continue reading

Let’s talk about Planet Earth and all its forms of life, including humans. Let’s talk about how we can work together to build a better future for all. Let’s talk, and let’s listen to each other too. Everyone seems to be worrying, even in despair about ‘saving the planet’ – even saving ourselves and our Continue reading