The really very last word

One thing has to be said: there is a lot going on politically in the northern hemisphere.

Most of the governments from the coronavirus years in the democracies have now actually been replaced or are as good as replaced. Whether the new ones will be better remains to be seen. But, as we all know, there is magic in every new beginning – and the people under the war-mongering would-be tsar, the crocodile in the Middle Kingdom or the fat dictator in the starving part of Korea can only dream of this.

It’s just a pity that these and other obscurantists are holding us back from the two huge challenges of this century: the fight against climate catastrophe and the global decline in biodiversity. Is anyone else besides us drumming up support for the biologisation of our ‘civilisations’? Does really everything have to get absolutely bad before it can get better?