Reflections 11th October

What I’ve noticed.

I'm seeing small, tentative but important steps towards dealing with our world as it is, rather than holding our breath hoping for Covid to go away.

It won't of course. Like other coronaviruses - SARS, and MERS it will stay with us but fade into the background. Other novel Coronaviruses will emerge at some unknown point. They seem to be a consequence of the systemic impact of the way we are inhabiting the planet, and on that basis until we find more integrated ways of living we will have to learn to live with them.

I'm noticing more people thinking in more connected ways, about the consequences of what we have been doing as routine, mindless of potential consequences. What we eat. How, where and above all why we travel the way we do. Our consumption habits and our obsession with scale. The awareness that scale is optional - some things scale well (anything that connects people to people and ideas) whilst others don't (packaging, cheap travel, nail bars and other periph…