Blog posts and short stories

  • Viewpoint: Ego travellers

    Viewpoint: Ego travellers

    “The urge to self-photograph and upload, to document and publish our every significant experience, was in the news again last month, when it was reported that several holiday companies are marketing ‘Instagram-friendly tours’ catering for ‘ego travellers’ among the millennial generation.  This came hard on the heels of Thomas Cook’s announcement that it might sell… Read more

  • Humans represent just 0.01% of all life, but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals

    Humans represent just 0.01% of all life, but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals

    A new assessment of all planetary life based on biomass – or weight – has revealed humanity to be ‘both insignificant and utterly dominant’.  The Israeli study estimates that the world’s 7.6 billion people make up just 0.01% of the mass of all living things.  (Worms have a combined mass three times greater than us.)… Read more

  • The Journey Begins

    Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton Read more