Transcript of Presentation to ECO 95, given at Filton College, October 1995
“The headlines in Mondays paper read “Schumacher drives away doubts”… But which Schumacher were they talking about? Whether you immediately think of the Schumacher lectures at the Colston Hall last Saturday, or the winner of the Pacific Grand Prix on Sunday depends on your particular perspective, but it is the contrast between these two worlds that marks the theme of ECO 95.
We must find a way for the world that hails speed on the track as progress, to meet and work together with the world that gives the Schumacher Society award for 1995 to Transport 2000. It was Schumacher in his book Small is Beautiful who wrote about the problems of the world being primarily that of 2 million villages, which makes it a problem of 2 billion villagers.
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Friday, August 04, 2006
The Philippines broke my heart
I lived in Manila in the early '80's (in the time of Marcos) and got to know the Philippines and love it.
But the rot was there then, and even though you hoped it'd sort itself out when the People's Revolution came, it still hasn't happened.
The worst of human nature is doing to that beautiful collection of islands, to those people with beautiful hearts, what it is doing to the planet. I see the PI as a microcosm of the ills that we face globally, and it makes me feel powerless, and yet at the same time so angry that it drives me to keep trying to do something.
But the rot was there then, and even though you hoped it'd sort itself out when the People's Revolution came, it still hasn't happened.
The worst of human nature is doing to that beautiful collection of islands, to those people with beautiful hearts, what it is doing to the planet. I see the PI as a microcosm of the ills that we face globally, and it makes me feel powerless, and yet at the same time so angry that it drives me to keep trying to do something.
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