Groupe Intellex David Brunnen

Unlike places with great monumental icons, Portchester's identity is revealed in the small places that sustain life and wellbeing

This is the seventh of a series published as Bruno's Blog by one of our local councillors

With mainstream media focused on the disastrous outcomes in Afghanistan, this brief episode asks what we can learn from that supposed failure

The transcript of this episode has been selected for the Governance list of articles by Group intellex on Mediumdot com

https://groupeintellex.medium.com/list/governance-6161a450fd44 

As a follow up the previous doom-laden episode, there is a need for an optimistic way forward

In this episode I point to useful texts that may inspire action - and particularly Jason Hickel's book 'Less Is More'

mainstream media routinely points to Climate Change for for today's disaster - but rarely point to the causes of that supposed cause

We should not say these awful things are caused by climate change

Some relationships we choose - but our relationship with the planet is not optional  

Effective management demands respect, and yet, all too often we become serial abusers

Ecodide is proposed, like genocide, to be internationally outlawed   But we are all, to some extent, guilty of Planet Abuse - and different places and people will recognise that in different ways