After 36 hours of rain, this morning’s run was more of a splash, across flooded fields and tracks.
The rain also seems to have dampened the riots, and attention is turning to why they happened. Colonel Gaddafi has apparently suggested that the unrest shows that the UK government is illegitimate, and should stand down. Saner but less witty fingers are being pointed variously at parents and state being too soft, at chronic racism, at social and economic inequality, at an amoral, selfish & materialistic society. All of which is probably true, and not unique to the UK although we may currently be at the top of the league table.
The real question is what, if anything, can be done about it. The answer, as with the question of how we can live more sustainably, will probably be a pluralistic mosaic of small steps across the whole of society, by which, if we are lucky, a critical momentum will be reached before it’s too late.
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