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A SEASON OF LESSONS

A SEASON OF LESSONS

Autumn this year isn’t exact­ly what the poet John Keats described as : “Sea­son of mists and mel­low fruitfulness,/Close bosom-friend of the matur­ing sun . . “. But it does, I think, pro­vide a good metaphor for look­ing at the world in what one glob­al affairs writer char­ac­terised as “the most dan­ger­ous peri­od inter­na­tion­al­ly since the end of the Cold War.”.Read the rest

WHERE CLIMATE IS KING

WHERE CLIMATE IS KING

As I write this, I’m look­ing out across a (thank­ful­ly) gen­tly rolling gray expanse of the North Atlantic. It’s strange to see an unbro­ken hori­zon after a week of cruis­ing among the ice­bergs and daunt­ing cliffs of  islands in the Cana­di­an High Arctic.Read the rest

THE SPLENDOUR OF AN UNFORGIVING LAND

THE SPLENDOUR OF AN UNFORGIVING LAND

“Green­land is Nature’s reminder of its utter indif­fer­ence to humankind”. I have no idea of who said that, but a week of cruis­ing and vis­it­ing small vil­lages along a coast­line that tru­ly mer­its the much over­worked adjec­tive “awe­some” has giv­en me rea­son to cel­e­brate it.Read the rest