Category: Ethics
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Blue Badge
I’m working up an annoyance into a rant, with a view to evolving it into a solution. If you’re not in the UK (and other regions may have similar systems), the Blue Badge is a permit that allows disabled drivers and or passengers to park more easily, including in places otherwise restricted. For some, that…
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The cost of “free” speech
Um… a thinking aloud waffle, because the ongoing implosion of Twitter has called me to reconsider my views on how I feel about free speech. It’s ok, I haven’t changed; I simply find I’m reassessing how I describe myself in that regard. I’ve always labelled myself as an advocate of free speech and an opponent…
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Belonging to the Land
I wrote the other day of an apocryphal link between monarchy and landscape, while referring to the recent death of the Queen. It’s probably born of legends and mythology such as the Fisher King and Bran, but I was thinking about actual physical connections today. They’ve locked her up in lead and oak, sealed so…
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A little rant on “pagan tealights”
Ok, so I guess pagans… we are connected to the natural world in a spiritual sense and find inspiration and communion within the enspirited landscape? It follows really that we don’t litter, we reuse and recycle and all the rest, we honour life and probably in a semi-animist sense we recognise not all that lives…
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Bristol Fashion
As I watch the recent Black Lives Matter events unfold around the world my heart is full with the knowledge that, this time, we may fully address the absurd atrocity of discrimination on the basis of skin tone. There is no racism because there is only one race of humans now on this planet –…
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But it is worse than that.
Credit for this post goes to, and the author of the main article is, Marc Doll. I’m putting Marc’s post here because it is, to date, the best all encompassing précis of the situation we find ourselves in. It is terrifying, awesome and inspiring in equal measure. It may not change your life or your…
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StopEcocide : Change the Law
I’ve just come back from a talk about ecocide that was kind of a memorial for Stroud-based eco-barrister, Polly Higgins, who recently passed after a very swift battle with an aggressive cancer. As a founder of Mission Lifeforce (now re-branded and re-launched as StopEcocide.Earth) she died even as thousands of Extinction Rebellion folk were taking…
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People’s Vote march London
It was a hint of the extraordinary day to come that we arrived in London to join the million plus (current estimates) others calling for a people’s vote – or more often a complete revocation of Article 50 – only to find that we had randomly stood smack bang next to the chair of the greenway action…
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The Kids Are All Right!
I was in the thick of the Bristol #YouthStrike4Climate March the other day, and thoroughly proud of the kids. They turned out in their hundreds, in weather that didn’t really promise much, and shouted and chanted and marched and bloody well protested for some long overdue climate action. As a child of the sixties I remember well…
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Leave only footprints…
I came away from Druid Camp knowing the site was in use again the following week for Super Spirit. As we left, we made sure we left the site in good order. That’s a part of finding relationship with a place. Now that Super Spirit too has ended, I’ve come across a photograph of the…
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