COP26 is over and the world’s attention to the climate crisis is swinging other ways. Looking at the headline coverage, the onlooker might be forgiven in thinking that the only solutions to climate change will be those agreed upon by nations, those high-level policy decisions made by the world’s Heads of State, politicians and financiers who were so prominent in front of the cameras.
But the other thread in the not-so-headline COP26 coverage was the actions that people around the world are already taking, practical actions channelling energy and giving hope that the individual, working in families, groups and communities can make a difference.
Here at the Great Fen we can and we are.
The long-awaited planting of the sphagnum moss, the final wet farming crop we are trialling in our fabulous Water Works project is now underway. This is getting down dirty, peat under the fingernails, frozen but invigorated, buoyant, productive, real people (the antithesis of Zoom), sharing and caring, committed action on climate change. The real thing.