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I've been trying to write this since I came back from Vancouver two months ago. 
Where is home? At the Islands folk festival with good once virtual and now real friends, listening to Todd Butler sing about leaving Vancouver to go home to the prairies and then finding that he was drawn back to his new home by the ocean?

I read an interesting article on Love Miles by a Pakistani woman living in Britain, moved here by her family as a child. I'm trying hard to be eco-friendly. But please don't ask me to give up flying to visit my family, she says, and I echo.

And here's another talking about the helplessness of not being able to support in family crises.

Meanwhile in my "home" country

Climate change activist stopped from travelling to Copenhagen
 Chris Kitchen held under anti-terrorist legislation (he's really dangerous, glued himself to a statue apparently)

BBC to vet BNP Question Time audience for anti-fascists (but not for BNP supporters, it seems) Although the BNP leadership include convicted violent criminals.

Really stupid award  and as we agonise the guardian ran a competition to describe your eco holiday The winner got  three nights' B&B at Kasbah du Toubkal in Morocco and flights with Royal Air Maroc Eco holidays: Pass me that machete it's titled. Apt?

Comments

[Heather]

Ah really loved the family crises one... We are struggling with some of these issues in a way and making very difficult decisions.

[Steven Earl Salmony]

It looks to me as if many too many people do not believe anything except that which they want to believe and their leaders feed them precisely what many too many leaders in our time want them to believe. Hence, what is illusory is uniformly presented by leadership as if it were real and greed rules the world.

[Janice]

You echo some of the things on my mind right now. Thinking about a trip back to England next summer. Almost 2 years since our last visit and some dear friends haven't yet met our youngest child.

Then there's the guilt - this is a uniquely wealthy problem as mentioned in one link you posted. To fly or not to fly - like the C02 problem in general, our decision has the highest impact on those countries less able to protect themselves from climate change.