Seeds for Thought: an Ecopsychology Blog

Maybe

Having just completed a move from England to Wales, am exhausted. Understandably. But having CFS/ME makes me think, makes me wonder.

Could we CFS/MEers survive an energy crash? Of course, you know I mean a societal energy crash, not a personal one.

Having thought I'd be moving from a typical terraced cottage into a caravan (sharing the nearby house's bathroom, kitchen and washing machine) as a stop gap before moving into a yurt... am starting to question the feasibility of that lifestyle. Feeling very lucky to have space for all my things, (pared down though they are from recent sorting for other destinations). Lucky to have a kitchen right here. To have the bathroom, washing machine. To having working central heating and electricity...

Conviviality III

Tonight, I am the one with the questions. 

1.  Is it convivial of us to stalk whales on the St. Lawrence River at the estuary of the Saguenay River, this tourism being a major source of employment and income for a very small local population?  And, where the poor stalked animals are vulnerable to injury caused by the propellers of watercraft?  Who advised us that we were entitled to do this, that somehow we have a right to disturb these animals in their habitat?  I'd love to see all the tourists pressure the Québec and Canadian governments to do something about the pollution of the Saguenay River which is causing the belugas to fail in reproducing successfully and increasing their numbers to hopeful levels.