Tag: Sewage and the water companies
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Dirty water; the Chagos Islands
Dirty Business I have now finished George Monbiot’s How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature, Verso, 2016, and have run out of superlatives. We are now seeing evidence of grossly exaggerated forms of the kinds of corruption, especially corporate corruption, which he exposed a decade ago. In ‘Highland Spring’ he discusses land…
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Guy Shrubsole. The Lie of the Land. Book review. Part I
The Lie of the Land. Who Really Cares for the Countryside? William Collins, 2024. This essential book follows on from the author’s superb Who Owns England?: how we lost our green and pleasant land, and how to take it back, William Collins, 2019, which forensically details who actually owns our countryside. Now he explodes the…
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The Flow. Book review. Part IV
The Flow, Rivers, Water and Wilderness, by Amy-Jane Beer, Bloomsbury Wildlife 2023 This must be the longest review I have written, which goes to show how much I love the book – and all I am doing is sharing the sparkliest gems. Amy-Jane Beer writes about another fascination of mine in the chapter ‘Light and water’…
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A White-crowned Parrot and other wildlife
A close friend is in the enviable position, in spite of weeks of constant torrential rain, of volunteering at a wildlife rescue in Costa Rica. He has also passed a Teaching English as a Foreign Language course with flying colours. Enchanted by this bird’s visit, he sent me this picture. He noticed that when it…