by Doreen Hosking | 28, Dec, 2022 | Blog
My Wish for 2023 King Charles talked in his first Christmas message to the British public about his mother’s faith in people. She had, he said, a belief in the extraordinary ability of each person to touch, with goodness and compassion, the lives of others, and to...
by Doreen Hosking | 2, Nov, 2022 | Blog
The Future Needs You As always there is some very bad news about the climate, and some very good news. Let’s look at the bad news first! Leading Climate Scientist Says the Climate Crisis Has Reached a Really Bleak Moment! The UN Environment Agency said this week that...
by Doreen Hosking | 25, Sep, 2022 | Blog
A Story about a Better Future The history of mankind is full of struggle, with many dark times and seemingly endless battles for survival. There have also been times, although perhaps not many, when the gods have smiled on us, and we have seen sunny uplands stretching...
by Doreen Hosking | 7, Sep, 2022 | Blog
Sharing the Load There are many things that we as individuals can and must do in the global fight against Climate Change. However, it is clear that citizens working together can do so much more. In our communities we can be very powerful indeed. I believe that working...
by Doreen Hosking | 8, Aug, 2022 | Blog
A Possible Tory Leader and her take on Democracy Liz Truss was harassed by climate activists at a recent Conservative Party leadership hustings for what they claimed was her failure to tackle the global heating crisis. In response she promised to crack down on...
by Doreen Hosking | 10, Jul, 2022 | Blog
Photo by Usman Yousaf on Unsplash We should be ANGRY, very angry (and, yes, I am shouting!) Over the months I have been writing my blog I have tried to remain reasonable and to look for the positive aspects of what we, the human race, are doing to tackle man-made...
by Doreen Hosking | 16, May, 2022 | Blog
(Pour la version française, veuillez cliquer ici.) Despite all the bad news about the climate, there is also good news! So, as individuals, we need to look forward. We need to picture the type of world we really want. Photo by Robert Collins on Unsplash It is true...
by Doreen Hosking | 25, Apr, 2022 | Blog
Are flights bad for the environment? Most of us know that burning fossil fuels is bad for the environment. We probably know that transportation, using fossil fuels, is a high emitter of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Many of us are thinking of car-sharing, buying...
by Doreen Hosking | 8, Apr, 2022 | Blog
The IPCC has just published an updated global assessment on the progress of mitigation of Climate Change and of government pledges to reduce emissions. It makes for stark reading. (Mitigation means cutting future greenhouse gas emissions. Sadly we cannot take the...
by Doreen Hosking | 20, Mar, 2022 | Blog
(Pour la version française, veuillez cliquer ici.) The World Right Now It is very easy to get depressed with the state of the world today and to feel that we are going downhill rapidly. It is true that many things are very challenging: Climate Change, decreasing...
