Hello World (well, about 50% of it so far)!

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When you start getting visits from people in places like Saint Lucia, Djibouti, and the Faroe Islands – you are surely entitled to feel pleased with your geographical reach? However, given the subject of this blog, I am particularly pleased to see that someone from the Maldives has visited (twice)… But, whatever, hello to all my readers – in 95 different countries! Over the last year, this blog has received 29,691 hits (an average of more than 80 per day and 570 per week) and 2,514 comments (although about 40% of those were probably me). Even though it has not proven possible (yet) to turn it from a hobby into a vocation; I have really enjoyed blogging about some of the most important issues that many on the planet today are still refusing to acknowledge. However, it has been suggested to me that I need to focus on solutions rather than problems and, whilst I agree that the world needs solutions not problems; my area of expertise is not solutions: I did not do Keele’s MSc in Environmental Sustainability and Green Technology; I deliberately chose to do their MA in Environmental Politics instead. Nevertheless, so as not to become too tiresome, I may yet change the focus, tagline, and even name of this blog. Who knows – I certainly don’t – not yet anyway… In the meantime, notwithstanding my job hunting activities, it will be business as usual for the foreseeable future; which means somewhere between 2 and 5 posts per week (mostly not at weekends)… I think we must hope that the crop failures suffered all around the world this year, which will undoubtedly cause commodity prices to peak in the coming months, do not lead to huge civil unrest (as they did in 2011). However, if they do, and if it is worse than 2011, I will have absolutely no pleasure in saying I told you so… Thank-you in anticipation of your continuing company on this journey.