One associate commented recently  ‘Oh dear, so much good sense cheek by jowl with such little synergising.  If only… someone could bang all our heads together!   We live in hope.’  Sharing that feeling about all these years of trying to encourage collaboration across different experiences, words, language etc. I let my key-board finger roam, before  yesterday seeing Monbiot below !!

GREATER SINS : UN-INTENDED, BUT IN ALARMING SWAY
When a slow-evolving culture engulfs all, we are
unwittingly deceived, failing to perceive major corporate faults.
Imposed interest charged without consultation, usury no less!

Theft of the commons, the creator’s unpossessive integral gift.
Rigidity and over-bearing power rising in blinded institutions,
belittling the dignity of a majority ‘below’,
bloating the power-plays of a minority ‘above’.

Such structural faults go barely observed,
never coherently questioned by a critical mass,
for narcissistic individualism is also encultured,
reigning destructively, largely unchallenged.. 

Top and tail from Monbiot yesterday:
The human tragedy is that there is no connection between what we know and what we do. Almost everyone is now at least vaguely aware that we face the greatest catastrophe our species has ever confronted. Yet scarcely anyone alters their behaviour in response: above all, their driving, flying and consumption of meat and dairy.
No government, even the most progressive, is yet prepared to contemplate the transformation we need: a global programme that places the survival of humanity and the rest of life on Earth above all other issues. We need not just new policy, but a new ethics. We need to close the gap between knowing and doing. But this conversation has scarcely begun. 

Yours obseravtion on collaboration welcomed.
Yours, Peter