So, I don't just talk about things I actually do them! Rare indeed amongst academics although I am not such at this time! :-)

Its a nice wood although I wasn't actually supposed to be there. Nonetheless, it was emancipatory to spend two nights out with Mother Nature. I was a little too close during this evening though since a visitation by the local (by the sound of it very large) wildlife in the night left me a little unnerved.

However, I've come back feeling much more relaxed and at peace with the world. Its got to be the best therapy in the book in my opinion. I am glad to hear that more and more of us in the UK are rekindling our interest in camping. There's got to be no better way to understand what all the fuss is about re climate change/global warming/wars, etc.

It can be a beautiful world, if only more of us would get out more, away from the TV and others' views of the world and start forming our own. This way the world really may become a better place for our children and their children.

Political Greenwash or Lack of Education?

I partook in this survey of over a thousand global warming/climate change 'key influencers' not so long ago, the results are just in. Seems political leadership is still deemed to be lacking:

"A new worldwide survey of key climate decision-makers shows strong and consistent views that government leaders worldwide need to act quickly and agree on a set of clear, inclusive, and long-term policies in order to put climate solutions in place. The survey comes as countries and regions prepare for the crucial Copenhagen meeting of the UNFCCC and the G8 Summit."

We have around 20 to 30 years to start to put things right. This is not long. Political processes are notoriously slow. Sure, there is progress but we now need to start 'fast-tracking' policies. There is some evidence in the UK that this is starting to happen, e.g. the contentious "eco towns" projects, but education is still required at all levels of society, from the top to the bottom, before true progress is acheived. Meanwhile, whilst we all chew things over, Mother Nature will continue to ruffle her polluted feathers.

why flooding?

because we have these...

but we do this...!

Eco Zoo

Eco Zoo - What the Net was invented for. Things are really ramping up now guys. Good work.

public splutter

More of us should use public transport but if its polluting like this vehicle then is it really much better than having a wealth of up-to-date private vehicles?



What do you feel?

BTW this bus almost ran me over too due to the actions of a rather reckless driver in the bus station! Nuff said.

Green Angel Sings the Blues

So, the sky is falling in but we're all still running around in petroleum-driven vehicles, at great cost.

Green Angel sings the Green Blues.

Hacking the Mainframe!

Dr. Timothy Barker
France (in exile) 11th April, 2008.


It is actually quite difficult to deprogram oneself from consensual reality. It also now seems, in retrospect, to not be an entirely good idea. Certainly ‘the authorities’ or ‘the establishment’ do not like people to think for themselves. For my own part in these escapades my objective was simple. I was witnessing, along with countless others, the destruction of our planet. I could no longer stand by and allow this to take place. Not on my watch, as they say. So, I sought to make a few changes.

The principal change, therefore, which one has to enact is to let go of the commonly held beliefs around about one’s being in society and then try to create one’s own path. However, this is much more easily said than done. For example, I was quite used to using shampoo and conditioner every day. I would try to take a bath or a shower (if I had one) every day. Looking back I’m not really sure why. But isn’t that what you’re supposed to do? Everyone is always doing this on the TV, right? It took around three or four months (I lost count actually) for my hair to ‘get right’. I still don’t use products, it looks OK to me. This probably hits that particular nail right on the head, so to speak. Taking responsibility for one’s own choices is paramount if we are to live in a sustainable manner. And this is the key objective of all of my experiments. Some of these I am outlining here.

Precisely why I am outlining these at this time is of great interest since I find that I am (I am struggling to find the English to describe this) being ‘held’ under a Section 3 of the Mental Health Act, 1983 (under British law). Actually, I fled the UK after some wholly un-British (in my book) actions on behalf of ‘the authorities’. Being pinned down and injected with pharmaceutical drugs, being handcuffed and dumped in a hard-to-locate ‘secure’ (actually drugs came and went like candy in a school playground) hospital ward and being denied all kinds of basic human rights such as the right to breath natural air and generally practice one’s own spirituality all say to me that the Mental Health system in the UK is in need of a jolly good overhaul and, more-to-the-point, should not be used in lieu of laws for the detention of citizens (with rights equal to others’) who want to deprogram themselves from consensual reality. Phew…

You see, my real bone of contention with all of this, is that consensual reality simply IS NOT WORKING! Take a look around, what do you see? Not only are we killing each other through drink, drugs and consumption in general but we are killing our one planet we are currently able to call home AND, potentially at least, a number of other species who may get along better without our interference. Those of us who are not concerned by this: ‘as long as we are doing OK’; should stop to think about our children’s children or our children’s children’s children. Or maybe you don’t have children? Well, here’s the news – you too were a child once! Grow up! Peace out, DD.