Secrets and Hope in Our Mad World

Early in 2017 I read George Marshall’s book ‘Don’t Even Think About It: Why We are Wired Not to Think About Climate Change’ and I decided I would think about it. And I would read about it. Then I would write about it.

I write as a 'non-expert' and I'm hoping that your comments will help me to see whether the insights I've

gained make sense, whether the conclusions stack up and whether it's realistic for me to start feeling

hopeful about the future .

Long time since I put anything here but I've been busy (thinking ... reading etc ... )  Also went to the Resurgence 50th birthday celebration in Oxford.  What a lovely uplifting event ...

 The conference led me to two interesting books - 

 George Monbiot's  'How Did we get into this mess?'  (a reasonably easy read with a pretty self-explanatory title)  A Must Read!

AND

'Don't Even Think About It':  Why our brains are hard-wired to ignore climate change (explains why we don't want to look at the big problems of the world, we feel too helpless, depressed, overwhelmed and whatever).   It is all pretty depressing ...

Am thinking that in the New Year I'll see if anyone would like to join a reading group to look at all the good news stories and the uplifting things which people are getting up to across the world to help move us to a brighter, better, future.  Something of an antidote to the depressing news we are fed which I guess aims to keep us feeling depressed and fearful.  Pull up the drawbridge and look after number one!


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