The soundbite “think globally, act locally” is attributed to the Scottish town planner Patrick Geddes, whose 1915 book entitled Cities in Evolution was built on the idea of working with the ‘whole environment’ in town planning.  But the phrase appears to have been used in the context of actual environmental matters only within the last 50…

“Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages”, Samuel Johnson 1758 In recent days, Extinction Rebellion has been demonstrating in London, calling for urgent action to avoid climate disaster.  Most of the media coverage has been unsympathetic, arguing…