What do you do when down - Read Darwin

So I can't face reading about the state of the world, I almost can't pick up a newspaper at the moment as so few people seem to be really thinking about the great problem of our age Earth management. They don't realize that without resources to sustain population, whether it be food, oil, fish or sheer living space we will turn on each other. We have repeatedly in the past.

So Obama visits Ghana, we talk about human rights, extremely important, but if we don't manage this earth all the our beautiful freedoms will disappear. So we have a conundrum; Democracy and freedom are based on mass bribery of always more yet always more is killing the planet or the life that we require to sustain us.

So it is all so obvious you go to any busy location with lots of humans and just watch and then wonder can this be sustained with minimal regard and thought for the earth?

So I read Darwin, or the voyage of the Beagle to take me to another time and another Earth. Oh he would weep now, if he were to take the same journey now, the tears would flow down his cheeks.

I watched some skate boarders the other evening they were being photographed in a concrete jungle with graffiti. That is all we will have left, the people will not be able to amaze at nature, it may look green in areas, but nothing much of any size will live. So we will be left photographing humans, doing something as mundane as skate boarding not a killer whale chasing a seal.

Everywhere he saw life, everywhere...

In all the noise of the Internet will this make a difference, will I be able to influence someone with far superior prose and connections than me? Probably not the odds are very small.

Well I have Charles for the duration of the book and then there will be another book, and perhaps just perhaps someone might stumble across this blog and think about the Earth a little, I hope so. We can but hope...