years and years ago I wrote my undergraduate dissertation entitled 'stepping into nature' it was an exploration of how people had become disassociated from the environment or nature.... and putting it very simply i concluded that for anything to change there would have to be a radical shift within our value system. As the value system puts greed and selfishness in such high esteem that they justified all sorts of behaviour that created problems; climate change, corrupt political systems.. you name it.. the whole basis of our society really.. and that if we could instead value care and nuturing to the same extent then perhaps the world could turn around... that exploitaiton of nature of other people of systems would perhaps seem less plausible, less a part of who we are as humans...

and now since then... members of parliament, bankers, journalists, as well as the disaffected urban youth involved in recent riots are playing out their roles as villians .... but.. we need to move forward to move on and away from this villification.. to find a way to be kinder, to care.. and to show others that this is the only way forward... that raging capitalism is not the answer.. we do not need more and more .. stuff...