In 2020 I was given the responsibility of leading the global sustainability practice for one of the world's biggest businesses, KPMG. It was then that I started to understand the seriousness of the position that the world had got itself into. And I told myself that I had to do whatever I could to raise awareness, and stimulate action, to address the crisis we are facing. That is why this website exists. 

My background as a historian already told me that our civilisation was fragile. Humans have been on this planet for more than 300,000 years but it is only in the last 50 years that the vast majority of us have been able to enjoy a good quality of life.

That is a wonderful story of progress. But unfortunately as living standards have continued to improve, the strain on the planet’s resources are approaching breaking point. In particular the natural resources which have powered our growth since the Industrial Revolution - coal, oil and gas - are leading us rapidly towards climate catastrophe. You will probably be okay. But the future for our children looks bleak.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, the world’s financial inequalities are increasing, back towards the levels last seen more than 100 years ago, where a small elite controlled almost everything. And the aspirations of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, agreed by almost all countries of the world in 2015, appear ever harder to reach. 

Rather than leaning into these challenges together, the world is retreating from global collaboration back towards nationalism, intolerance, wars and conflict. 

This website shares the blogs I have been writing every week for more than 3 years, together with some films, all designed to provoke discussion and help catalyse action, before it is too late.