Freelance journalist, NZ/NL
Freelance journalist, NZ/NL
“Everything’s near collapse, the world is burning, there’s too much going on, the situation is escalating.” This is my clumsy rendering of a sentence by Dutch singer-songwriter Boudewijn de Groot who is sometimes referred to as “the Dutch Bob Dylan”. I used to listen to one of his records throughout the late seventies and early …
New Zealand’s coronavirus lockdown came as a shock to me. I didn’t know democratic governments have the power to tell an entire population to stay home. I’m not complaining, but personally I’m more a proponent of the model used in Sweden. Immediately after the announcement by our prime minister, my employer told me not to …
The cowboys and cowgirls of our era are no longer riding horses in the dust, where the long arm of the law doesn’t reach. They’re undertaking the ego trips of entire nations, riding spaceships, leaving a massive trail of debris in a galaxy untouched by humans not so long ago. The European Space Agency reported …
Will the birds singon the last day or go quiet before humanity breathes its last breath? The day of reckoning will be of our own making,a day of cause and effect. We often feel that there’s no justice,but don’t reckon with the fact that we ourselves are Mother Nature, our actions of consumerism not a …