Straws in the Wind

A slight hint of future developments. ‘It is a snapshot, a straw in the wind and should only be regarded as an unscientific measure.’

As I listened to the news this morning, I detected perhaps more than a faint signal amongst all the noise.

After over twenty years of adventures in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Vietnam, America is moving away from overt attempts to "build nations" in its own image as it reaches the same conclusion - to its credit more openly - than Britain and other European countries did half a century ago.

BP struggled gamely but ineffectively to justify opening another eighteen oil fields at a time when the UK is hosting COP 26.

One in three wild trees worldwide is facing extinction (what is a tame tree, I wonder?), including cultural keystones such as the Oak.

I also came across a pretty brutal, but thought-provoking critique on the complicity of sustainability consultancies in our procrastination around taking the action we need to.

And the Economist ran an interesting a…