Okay, on the dinner table you have a gravy boat. So why do we talk about a gravy train. And what is a gravy plane?
We were talking today about the strange weather we have had this year. News reports have been talking about extreme weather in France and Italy.
It struck me that we have been talking about a “new normal” in relation to the pandemic. But actually there is the new climate normal that we have not quite got to terms with in this country. Even if we take drastic action these extreme weather events will be with us for the rest of our lives.
Countries like Nicaragua, where the climate changes have challenged the ability to farm, have started to out changes in place that are sustainable. But here we seem to be still at the sticking plaster stage.
Nothing we do will reverse the changes in our lifetime, so how should we be living differently, how should we be growing in a different way?