How do you measure effort? This is a funny one to measure, it certainly is measurable by numbers, but life is more complex than that. To think of all the human effort that goes against conservation, the exploitation that is mindless and completely blind to anything other than profit. Perhaps wasting some petrol and resources saving little birds is not so bad, although there definitely a direct correlation between driving and the environment.…

I remember a visit to a zoo once. There were some lions behind glass and the path for human visitors went past that glass, and I remember those kids knocking at the glass, and laughing teasing a very big lion. That lion could kill the lot of them with one strike of his immense paw.. It gave a big roar, and you could feel the power of that giant. I felt sorry then, that we are not born of lions.…

Doom By Hope* Ronald Wright, coined the frase ‘Progress trap’, which refers to the way people out-smart themselves and develop technology that is in the long run beats the objectives. In his book ‘A SHORT HISTORY OF PROGRESS’ he tells the story of past civilizations and the way they tripped themselves up: Prehistorian man and over hunting, Sumar and over cultivating, the Roman Empire and the Inca more similar to our civilization, over-grazing, deforestation, exlpoitation, war and endless hunger for power.…