January 2022
It is well known that some of the great creative achievements of humanity emerge from periods of great suffering and anxiety, when we are faced with existential extremes. It hardly needs to be said that now must be the extremest, when the survival of all life on earth is threatened as a result of Western industrial civilisation. I write this as the negotiations of COP26 are ongoing and there is a face-off between the street activists…, demonstrating against what they see as the unreal blah-like discussions of the Parties, and the protracted debates, seemingly controlled by the rich nations, within the conference.