Nature’s crisis is not driven only by technology, corporations, or policy failures, but by a deeper pattern of endless consumption rooted in human dissatisfaction. Forests, rivers, and even environmental causes are often turned into tools for personal identity and comfort. Real ecological change begins when people honestly examine the desires behind their choices and act from awareness rather than habit, guilt, or the need for more.
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Originally published in The Sunday Guardian on 7 jun '26
World Environment Day demands more than awareness—it requires confronting the restless desires driving destruction
The parks of London do something to the mind, if one lingers in them long enough without an agenda. Walking through one in the late evening, when the city has begun to loosen its grip, and the light is going amber behind the beech trees, something in the usual interior traffic pauses. The commentary. the scheduling, the low-grade ambient performance of being a person with places to go, goes momentarily quiet. Into that quiet something unremarkable enters: the tree is simply a tree, the grass is simply grass, the last birds settling overhead have no awareness of the observer whatsoever. It lasts perhaps ten seconds. Then the phone lights up, or the mind remembers what tomorrow needs, and the interior traffic resumes. The walk gets logged, a caption is drafted, and the sense of having done something wholesome settles in.
