by sustainablesociety | Feb 10, 2020 | Climate Change
This short collection of essays, written between 2011 and 2019, seeks to discuss the concept of sustainability and its relationship to society and health. They can be read individually in any order. I argue that an understanding of what ‘health’ is, needs to change...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 19, 2020 | Politics
Introduction “I came to realize that ideologies had a narrative structure – that they were stories, in a word – and that the emotional stability of individuals depended upon the integrity of their stories. I came to realize that stories had a religious substructure...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
I like a pint. On occasion, I may be found in ‘The Sloop’ in St Ives, or the ‘Pilchard Press’ in the same seaside town. I like a pasty. A proper Cornish pasty stuffed with succulent steak wrapped in short crusty pasty oozing with gravy. I am...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 10, 2020 | Philosophy
Essay by Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592). Many years before Irvin Yalom in 2008 wrote ‘Staring into the Sun’ but after The Buddha’s reflections on the transience of life, Michel De Montaigne confronted head on the inevitability of mortality in an attempt to facilitate...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Right to Hate – Chris McGlade. “You tell me what I can say, you censor what I can’t.” This poem is an anti PC tirade against the London Metropolitan ‘liberal left’ (‘down in the smoke’) who stand accused of shutting down speech, of labelling white working-class...
