by Doreen Hosking | 22, Apr, 2025 | Blog
Senator Cory Booker recently gave a mammoth speech on the Senate floor in opposition to President Donald Trump’s policies. It lasted 25 hours and 5 minutes. To me it was one of the first overt signs of Democratic resistance to the policies which are tearing America...
by Doreen Hosking | 16, Apr, 2025 | Blog
Clean energy is here to stay Christiana Figueres (one of the architects of the Paris Agreement on climate in 2015) emphasised this in her recent speech to the Reuters Institute of Politics. What on Earth does this mean? Is it good news? It means, as she also said in...
by Doreen Hosking | 23, Mar, 2025 | Blog
“Wonderful Stuff This Water!!” Climate Change is primarily a water crisis. We feel its impacts through worsening floods, rising sea levels, shrinking ice fields, wildfires and droughts. For more information, have a look at this article. “The earth, the air, the land,...
by Doreen Hosking | 19, Mar, 2025 | Blog
How often have you thought deep in your heart “someone else will fix it”? Maybe there is rubbish lying in the street, but you are in a hurry. Or perhaps you see a poor person begging and you think “probably they will spend it on drugs, somebody else can waste their...
by Doreen Hosking | 11, Mar, 2025 | Blog
Could African Elephants Really Disappear From the Wild? “The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchild may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?” David Attenborough said this, commenting on the current rapid rate of global...
by Doreen Hosking | 28, Feb, 2025 | Blog
UNHCR (the United Nations Refugee Agency) says that at the end of 2023 the number of forcibly displaced people in the world amounted to 1 in every 69 of the global population. Over 42 million of them were children! I find that quite staggering. Why should we worry...
by Doreen Hosking | 20, Feb, 2025 | Blog
Are we just going to give in? – let our children’s futures go to hell? – do nothing to save our wonderful wildlife? – let dictators take over our world for the sake of their private gain? – abandon minorities? – create misery for billions of people? – let our major...
by Doreen Hosking | 27, Jan, 2025 | Blog
Humanity has had endless opportunities to change for the better, and we have chosen not to. If we want our children to thrive in the years to come it is obvious that we need to find a way to transform our thinking. It is clear now that we have the technology to tackle...
by Doreen Hosking | 13, Jan, 2025 | Blog
It is not always easy. Life is tough at the moment. But I don’t want to concentrate on the problems. I want to focus on what we can do about them. Not the airy fairy “we can probably do this in the future kind of promise”, but what each of us can do right now. All of...
by Doreen Hosking | 8, Jan, 2025 | Blog
Part 2 of a two-part series on how to tackle Climate Change Mangrove Swamps Make Wonderful Carbon Sinks Restoring Nature can help us tackle Climate Change Humanity has created utter chaos in this beautiful world of ours. Nature can help us repair that damage and...
