Category Archives: Bobbing Around

The current global culture of greed and conflict is a crime against the Universe. Dr Bob Rich, talking with Fiona McVie Human and non-human beings have an equal right to life, and the meaning of life is interdependent on all … Continue reading →

This planet is not your rubbish dump, but your cradle. Dr Bob Rich To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy. Pope Francis Bobbing Around Volume Twenty, Number Three, September, 2020 Bob Rich’s rave bobswriting.com … Continue reading →

If your compassion doesn’t include yourself, it is incomplete. Siddhartha Gautama Portugal is the third EU country to go completely coal-free (two years ahead of plan), thanks to falling cost of renewables, coupled with the rising cost of CO2 pollution … Continue reading →

Who said annoyances have to be annoying? Dr Bob Rich The health of soil, plants, animal, people, and the environment is one indivisible. Professor Rattan Lal, winner of the World Food Prize Bobbing Around Volume Twenty, Number One, July, 2020 … Continue reading →

Attention is a searchlight: it shapes your current reality. It is also a fertiliser: it shapes your future reality. Dr Bob Rich Bobbing Around Volume Nineteen, Number Twelve, June, 2020 Bob Rich’s rave bobswriting.com    anxietyanddepression-help.com/    mudsmith.net/    previous issues *About Bobbing … Continue reading →

Since the mid-20th century, humans have increasingly — although largely unintentionally — threatened significant harm to themselves and to the planet, prioritising economic and population growth but largely ignoring its social, political and environmental consequences. John Hewson, a former leader … Continue reading →

More than 5,000 people have succumbed to coronavirus yet, according to the World Health Organization, air pollution alone — just one aspect of our central planetary crisis — kills seven million people every year. Owen Jones Fighting reality only makes … Continue reading →

The [climate] crisis is not imminent. The crisis is here. George Monbiot [East] Antarctica is melting. Everywhere I looked, there was water rushing off the ice sheet, carving long ravines deep into the ice sheet, or pooling into supraglacial lakes. … Continue reading →

Failing to adequately plan for the known threat of climate change in a country like Australia should now be considered to be an act of treason. Joëlle Gergis, lead author on the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth … Continue reading →

Anyone who denies the climate catastrophe, anyone who stands in the way of emergency action, is a mass murderer on a scale never before seen, as in billions. The planet would cease to support life without the services insects provide. … Continue reading →