Activism is NOT about memes, social media or reading prepared speeches. It's about modelling new paradigm behaviour, teaching skills and about persistence

Exactly. Something politicians are missing. Memes and social media are a way of venting and organising rallies, perhaps, but unless you are doing something concrete, it's pretty useless. And upsetting. I watched Jonathon Pie's rant about this very thing this morning. It made me well up. It feels like we are all going to die tomorrow - but feeling like that aint gonna help - focussing on what IS happening, and what I can personally do in small ways, is much better for my mental health!

What a woman. I love stories of forest planting. Perhaps my one tree a week (evened out across a year) is something. I bought myself more trees to plant for my birthday this weekend.