It was great today to do the train thing and walk with Janet all the way – although my knee knows it now. The first thing I saw on crossing the county border was the beautiful hazy outline of distant hills, and this…
…evidently we are better at the economics of getting stuff than we are at the economics of getting rid of stuff in a good way.
Every smallest action we do affects other people who are not directly involved. We dirty the air, we make noise, we cause happiness and unhappiness without knowing it. We can’t help being part of the world, part of Europe. I can tell when there’s an anticyclone with a south east wind, because of the tang of nitrogen oxides in the air. But there’s no economic incentive to stop our harmful ‘externalities’
God help us to live as if
other people matter.