Looking up when you ought to have smelled left

Back in 2019 it was purported that climate change would wreak havoc with 2030 as a pretty hard deadline. Greta Thunberg had already spent a year and more since she began her student strike for the climate.

There were rallies and protests and marches and it was not at all clear at that time that governments, media or techno-moguls would do anything aggressive enough to prevent the global climate crisis from developing into very serious consequences for humanity.

It was about that time that I started thinking about getting rid of my car, having already decided to walk whenever possible, pushing the boundary of what is possible.