The Friday Rant on population and sustainability- 24 hours late

I was chairing and speaking at a conference last week on the theme of leadership to a group of owner/managers of businesses in the sustainability sector. A mix of companies in energy efficiency, carbon monitoring and green logistics were some of the areas of business that were represented. I was asked by the organisers to [...]

It’s Friday – and it’s a reflective rant

The end of this month, and then leading into May, has seemed somewhat like an extended holiday interspersed with the odd day at work. I am far from being an anti-holiday apologist, but I have to say that this staccato pattern disrupts the normal rhythms and the regular ebb and flow relationship between work and [...]

Friday Rant Time again and it’s about events in Japan!

It has been a pleasant few days of warm dry weather in rural Dorset with 18.5 degrees showing on the thermometer in the garden and the spring bulbs providing a much-needed splash of colour. In a month or so the House Martins will return to the eaves and the Easter Egg hunt for the children [...]

Population Speak Out Month

I pledged that I would blog and speak about the dangers of an exponential growth in global population as part of a campaign across the world to identify the threat that dares not speak its name. I refer of course to the horrifying growth of an ever-increasing world population drawing upon finite resources. I alluded [...]

Do you want a UK with 71m people?

The UK’s population reached 61.4m people in 2008, rising since 2005 by some 400k people a year or the equivalent of 1,200 a day. In Oct 2009, the Office of National Statistics projected (not ‘forecast’) an increase of 10 million more people in the next 22 years. This will have huge implications in terms of [...]

The Bible – A History – better it had been lost for ever

I watched “The Bible – A History” on Channel 4 last Sunday. I wish I hadn’t! Rageh Omaar is a serious journalist but failed, in over an hour’s broadcasting, to pose one challenging question concerning the authenticity of the source material. He seemed to accept it in a way that a poor undergraduate would accept [...]

“The Age of Stupid” – over-reaction or not?

I have received the greatest number of readers from my recent post on the age of stupid – as well as some comments. Thank you. It would appear that there is a fair amount of interest in this, largely ignored, issue that I believe is an unparalleled threat to all the species sharing this planet. [...]

Human population growth and the Ostrich

The ostrich is well known as the creature that sticks its head in the sand. Not being a naturalist I do not know the reason why the ostrich would do such a thing! The analogy of the ostrich is applied to human beings when they fail to see a self-evident truth and then bury their [...]