The parlous state of our freshwater ecosystems is just one signal that we face a more widespread, and unprecedented, environmental crisis. New Zealand’s dairy

‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear’

It strikes me with great clarity that if you look at the problems in isolation they each seem intractable; but when you grasp that there could be one single sol

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