Category Archives: Co-owning the Earth

November 23 2022 SOCCER: THE SELECT FEW.  When I was in elementary school in Groningen, an old University City, I played soccer in two ways. We played a game called, ‘putje’, where the street on which I lived, was the … Continue reading →

November 16 2022 SAVE OUR SOULS The concept of S.O.S is well known. This disaster signal certainly applies to our world today, as COP 27 shows, where it is actually, more a S.O.B affair: Save Our Bodies, while ‘Save Our … Continue reading →

November 9 2022 DARKNESS AT NOON “Since the invention of the steam engine, the world has been permanently in an abnormal state”.  That’s what Arthur Koestler wrote in his depressing book, Darkness at Noon, in 1940. He also wrote, “The capitalist system will … Continue reading →

November 2 2022 THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD. Early last month “THE ECONOMIST”, Great Britain’s celebrated weekly, had a cover, shoutingTHE PRINCE, in fat letters, showing a picture of China’s President Xi Jinping, whom this magazine called, “the world’s most … Continue reading →

OCTOBER 26 2022 THE VERY LAST MARRIAGE Today Chaos is the universal condition. We have really screwed things up, and it looks increasingly that remedies are impossible, so we have to live with the consequences of our past conduct and … Continue reading →

October 19 2022                                  THE DEATH OF A SINGLE TREE.                                  Nobody can escape death, yet we all try;  Trees are life: we kill them and we die. Death is part of life: just look at ‘fall’, when trees, in multi-colored shades, … Continue reading →