Thoughts For The Future

I spoke at the 2020 Friends Of Kloofendal annual general meeting. I had a few requests for a copy of the presentation. Instead of emailing text, I recorded an audio file of the presentation.

Since lockdown, we have all discovered that Zoom and other virtual presenting platforms are like Powerpoint. You can bore someone to death, inflect torture and pain on an unimaginable level, and someone else can wow and connect to the audience. The difference is not the technology, but the speaker. If your online meetings have been […]

It was a chance to inspire and educate the next generation of conservationists and underpin the importance of insects in the greater scheme of things.

Just as a spoiled child demands a new toy or a bar of chocolate at the checkout counter, mankind has viewed natural resources with much the same childish bravado. The temptation to desire something, or to exploit a resource as we see fit, is justified by the human perception of ownership. In our attempts to […]

When I was growing up in England in the 1970’s I, like everyone else at that time, watched the news on TV before dinner. From Ethiopians starving to death in their war-torn country, commercial loggers chopping down the Amazon rain forest, and Green Peace harassing Japanese whaling ships, it seemed terrible that mankind could inflict […]

The question of how much do we impact upon the environment can be tricky to answer, simply because we are rarely cognisant the consequences of our actions. So much of our impact is hidden from us either through society, or by the organisations who manufacture the products that we use. For example, consider where your […]