A message from prison (updated) – Just Stop Oil protestor Morgan Trowland
The below phone message is from Morgan Trowland, the 40-year old civil engineer recently imprisoned for three years after suspending himself and a Just Stop Oil banner over the Dartford Crossing of the M25 motorway, prompting the police to close the road for 40 hours....
Dear David…
Dear David, I miss you. Still. Ah, I’d planned to put this post up last Tuesday, on the twelfth anniversary of your sudden death, but I was too busy dealing with the flurry of interest in your legacy, so I know you’ll forgive me. Instead I post it today. I have long...
Surviving the Future: The Deeper Dive 2023
**Note that the below post was written in the leadup to the second Deeper Dive, held in early 2023;for the third run, in early 2024, see here** ~~~ Well, after last winter’s powerful ride, it’s now just six weeks until our second Deeper Dive, this time...
Transforming our relationship ~with~ the future
Originally written as my contribution to the Jihlava Inspiration Forum book, October 2022
The following is my response to the invitation for a brief 1,000 word reflection on the topic:
"How should we transform our relationships for the future? And what can each of us do about it?"
Transforming our relationship ~with~ the future
"The crisis we face is fundamentally one of relating"
The more deeply I reflect on these words from the extraordinary Eve Annecke, the more truth they reveal.
And indeed, useful truth… of that special kind that opens real, practical paths for transforming our future. [i]
That said, I must be clear.
My own dark optimism does not permit me to convey the popular idea that our future can be “anything we dream”; nor even that it will be bright, at least in any common sense of the word. Quite to the contrary, our time is one of lessons long ignored coming back to bite.
Our time is one in which the common assumption that our children will be better off than us has already quietly reversed. One in which the hard consequences to hubris come starkly into view, even as we stubbornly insist that our destiny is off-world, exploring the stars...
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