Oh, fabulous. Coronavirus means we’re back to disposable coffee cups: Starbucks Will No Longer Fill Your Reusable Cup Because Of COVID-19
This is a rather concerning piece from over the pond: ‘It’s Going to End in Death’: Doctors Say U.K. Is Ill Prepared for Coronavirus
It’s fun looking back on my old “blogiversary" posts - like this one from 11 years ago, when my blog was 6.
Well, now. One Man & His Blog is 17 years old today.
That’s astonishing. It’s probably the most time I’ve committed to a single thing, bar the relationship with my wife (who was not yet my wife when the blog began…)
Oil consumption just fell off a cliff…
Could the coronavirus be a globalisation inflection point?
Maybe. If we want it to be.
I have managed quarter of a century as a journalist without hearing the phrase “fronted adverbial”. But now I am a parent of a primary school child, it is imperative I know it, apparently.
Children in school. Bird food topped up. Dishwasher on. Coffee made.
Dammit. It’s time to do some work.
I do wonder if the double-whammy of the climate crisis and the coronavirus might make us think a little harder about how and why we travel - and maybe help us enjoy digital’s ability to keep us globally connected while relishing where we live, too.
David Allen Green’s characterisation of us entering “Brexit: Season 2" is a useful one, I think: Brexit: the end of the beginning
Actual interview with actual scientist for those who are overwhelmed by inexpert hot takes on COVID-19: Coronavirus’s Genetics Reveal Its Global Travels
Craig Mod, in his Roden newsletter:
“What I find most dangerous about Twitter is that it can generate similar chemical feelings to having done “the work,” when in fact, you haven’t done the work. You’ve just micro-plastic’d idea potential.”
Trees and the climate crisis
I do worry, however, that a destructively naive view of nature and a rush to get trees in the ground will sweep all before it. We risk repeating the errors of the past and once again cause great ecological damage. Simple solutions to complex problems are always wrong.
Tree-planting has a role to play in combating the climate crisis - but it’s not everything, it appears. That brings us back to rewilding.
I was doing some site analysis for a client, when it occurred to me that I’d never registered my micro.blog account for search console, or anything like that. So I did. And then I ran it through Page Speed Insights.
Well played, @manton. Well played indeed.
