Reaching across a millennia — We can stuff them full of botox and stick them full of collagen. But whatever their wrinkle quota ends up being, one day the whole body will biodegrade. Like wood. In certain conditions wood can outlast a human body; carbonised under extreme heat, it can last for millennia. …

If you think one age group is to blame for climate change inaction, you’re tripping. — Pic by DarkWorkX on Pixabay Actually, I think my title is probably a little disingenuous because from everything I’ve read, psychedelics help in developing a broad, holistic view. To lay climate change’s fault at the feet of one generation is the opposite. …

The last 500 years of western tradition has taught us to think of matter as kinda dead. But what if that’s wrong? — When I was a kid, I liked seeing people writing their universal address — name, street, suburb, state, country, The World, The Solar System, The Milky Way, The Universe (and now, possibly, the Multiverse). I always liked the Milky Way bit. Not just because it reminded me of the white…

The everyday — but not for me — practice of leaving the house — As I leave the house and the warmth hits me, and I begin to climb the stairs, Jane comes to mind. I guess it’s because she understands the magnitude of an everyday mundane thing like going for a walk to the top of the street. Our bodies share the same…

Imagine people not being taught to be uber individualists by the same corporates who are meanwhile sucking them dry through a straw — I mean, come on. Who’s the real welfare queen? Pic by PublicDomainPictures on Pixabay Wouldn’t it be good if we lived in a society where we all received handouts whenever we needed them? What is your reaction to such a statement? Was there some kind of visceral revulsion, a feeling…

We need to take it back. Because we’re beautiful when we flourish. — The problem with capitalism is one that Karl Marx well knew: it works. Until it doesn’t. We’re in the bit now where even in the richest countries in the world we can now see it doesn’t (although plenty of people will keep thinking it does, because capitalism is addiction). But…

Nature Talks Back — This is the first in a series of posts where I recount stories that I really, really, really want to be true but we’re not sure if they are. In a dolphinarium in South Africa in the 1970s, a man stood smoking a cigarette as he looked out at the dolphins. One dolphin, a six-week-old calf, stared at him intently as he blew smoke and it hit the glass. Suddenly she swam away to her mother for a moment…

Eco-capitalism must not be allowed to make climate change its next new market — Extinction Rebellion events clogging up the streets stopping business as usual infuriates some. I get that. But business as usual must drastically change to mitigate climate change’s worst effects. And Extinction Rebellion doesn’t talk about that. Which smells a bit suss. There was a propensity for a long time in…

It takes some of us longer than others — Do you know how it’s been said that depression is anger turned inwards? What happens if you’re depressed and angry all in the one day? That’s how I was all day yesterday. Does that mean I ate an anger two-for-one deal? …