A new job on the environment back at home in the UK has prompted much head-scratching and reflection over the past few weeks. How to contribute positively to mitigating and/or resolving the environmental challenges of our time; how to keep positive and optimistic in the face of such huge and overwhelming evidence of the damage that we are doing and the scale of the problems we face in the coming century; how to keep perspective and not feel too bleak; how to make a difference in practical, concrete terms; and how to ensure consistency between the causes one espouses and one's own way of living, in terms of ecological footprint and so on: just an indication of the sorts of questions I have been grappling with, in sometimes interminable fashion.
I had let this blog slip for a few months, due to my Colombian travels, the book writing, and the return home. But now that I am back, and in the proverbial saddle, and thinking about all of these things, I thought it might be a good time to resume writing the occasional blog, not least because it can be quite cathartic and salutary thrash these things out in the public domain, and share them with (hopefully) a sympathetic, interested readership.
Thoughts and comments welcome, on the blog or by email: edwardleodavey@gmail.com.
