It was a great surprise and an honour to become president of the JRI, not least because my immediate predecessor was Sir John Houghton, founding chair of the JRI. I well remember Sir John inviting me to become a JRI board member in 2000, during a weekend workshop at St. …
I like a bit of wildness! I wonder what image that conjures up in your mind? Coming into my 60th year, perhaps of an aging rocker doing air guitar while headbanging to loud music! But while rock music is part of my eclectic musical tastes, that’s not what I mean. …
Is it not stupid that Amazon, the company, is worth billions in the economy, while Amazon the rainforest is worth nothing – until it is destroyed for logging or agriculture? Its real worth, as a generator of oxygen and biodiversity is unaccounted for, even though we all depend on it. …
Entangled Life. How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake (Random House, 2020) I really like this book. I guess that is partly because it intersects with so many different bits of my own life, and I will mention some of those intersections …
10,000 in London, 38,000 in Berlin: protestors claiming that Covid is a hoax. Why on earth do they believe such nonsense? But then why do I, and others, think we know better? We all tend to assume that our sources of information are reliable, but it won’t do to write …
In my early years as a professional geologist and a Christian, I spent a great deal of time explaining to people who took a literal view of Genesis chapter 1 that the unequivocal discoveries of science pointed to a universe some 13-14 billion years old, and planet Earth about …
