I wasn't intending to turn this into a thread, but it seems to have happened anyway.
It's about the great plague on our lives: the extreme wealth of a tiny number of people.
And what to do about it.
Ah ha! So it's World Book Day I see. So it has to be done. All modesty held firmly in check. Here are 3 of my recent must reads! Treat yourself. Go on, you know you want to 😉 @saraband-books.bsky.social #Lutterworth Press.
This one hits hard.
Sent by an American friend
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Langdale Pikes
Quite true Javiera! Well said.Also see my book "Extraction to Extinction" @saraband-books.bsky.social which explores how we transmute rocks into our modern material and the heavy environmental price we pay for our hubris.
St Mary's Church, Ambleside, Cumbria, by moonlight. The church was built in the 1850s to a design by Sir George Gilbert Scott in Gothic Revival style. The building is Grade II listed.
CO2 Newsletter Vol. 1. no 3 cover
Between 1979 and 1982 American geologist William Barbat produced 18 issues of the "CO2 Newsletter". 8 pages packed with news, excerpts from recent reports and analysis. Accurate, prescient, heart-breaking.
The third is now released.
pdf and text via here - allouryesterdays.info/2026/02/08/c...
1/n
Ah, I live in Norfolk with no gritstone in sight with only soft chalk beneath my feet. (But I was born and brought up in Manchester....)
John Steinbeck "Cannery Row"
Lily Tarn on a moist and misty morning.
So true. And true of so many of our key materials that we ultimately extract from the ground. 'If you can't eat it, a geologist probably found it'. "Extraction to Extinction" A must read! 😊@saraband-books.bsky.social
Windermere from Jenkin's Crag.
Robin Lane on the way to Troutbeck.
Ambleside in the January sun from Wansfell Pike.
If you're free, flock round for lunch sometime.
Sunday morning and a moody Grasmere.
Correction for poor spelling in original post ...Langdale Pikes...
Blea Tarn with the Lagdale Pikes in winter sunshine.
Jetty at Windermere, Watershead, Ambleside.
Hoping that the USA is bigger than one deranged 79yo
Henry Moore, Reclining Figure at the Sainsbury Centre, UEA, Norwich at sunrise.
I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Sunrise and bridge over the River Yare, Norwich.
Eaton Park, Norwich on an icy morning.
Lunar halo over our house this evening.
Flaming sunset.
It's redacted.
New flag of Trump's USA revealed.
