Contents:
25 July 2013
Summer
Photos: Roger Morton
Wishes
for a Prince: Joselyn Duffy Morton
Art Exhibition, Chateau Tinteillac
Muyinga, Burundi: Chrissie Mougne
Importing
contaminated bees to UK: Graham White
Cover
caption, Bastille Day
I
have taken days to do this posting, mainly because there are so many necessary
summer interruptions – take another cold shower, amble over to the neighbour’s
for a swim, put some clothes on and visit lovely friends for an aperitif, admit
there is no food in the house and drag my bone-lazy feet to the crowded
supermarket (keep my dark glasses on for all of the above) attack the weeds
with gusto, eat the first lettuce, admire Roger’s 2013 batch of plum jelly;
become part of the team of End Ecocide in Europe.
The
latter is important and one to which I shall be devoting a lot of time and
energy. One million signatures have to be gathered by 1 January 2014 in order
for the European Commission to proceed in considering making ecocide a crime,
whereby CEOs can be held accountable and made to go to prison for their crimes
against the earth.
And
for all those sceptics who say ‘there’s no point, what difference could I make’,
this will prove you wrong – this is a Citizens Initiative. The European
Director is Prisca Metz, who I met in London in May and who has been patiently
persuading me ever since. (The international Human Rights lawyer, Polly Higgins
has been a driving force in bringing this concept into the world spotlight.) If
you haven’t already signed, please do get behind this excellent proposal and
add your signature.
https://www.facebook.com/EndEcocideInEurope
Meanwhile enjoy the summer sunlight – we deserve it after
that long miserable winter. I have been given the all-clear to begin playing
table tennis again (and I will if the temperatures ever go below 30.)
Maybe ce soir, before the next whirl of social activity swarms
our way.
Have fun in the sun, Joselyn
Morton
