The movement may be endowed with our life

Said a master over the 100 year ago, 

Humanism, it's knowledge, can become a living factor in the world’s work - but if ever you make these priceless Teachings subservient to mammon, the light will fade and the movement will fail.

Reintroduction of Wolf

Ecological Solutions and Evidence: Volume 6, Issue 1 
January–March 2025

They say: "Our aim is to provide new information to inform these ongoing and future discussions around human-wolf conflict and wolf reintroductions both in the UK and elsewhere."

"Our work provides further evidence of the role of large carnivores in assisting ecosystem recovery and delivering the nature-based solutions required to address the climate emergency."

This substantial carbon sequestration and the potential financial benefit related to wolf reintroduction may influence landowner and land manager perspectives around large carnivores. Carefully designed benefit sharing mechanisms would be needed to ensure any financial benefits are shared equitably across landowners, land managers and local communities. Comprehensive stakeholder engagement would be needed well in advance of any proposed reintroduction to identify potentially affected groups and address challenges of co-existing with large carnivores.

Here we go

"This fish strikes the hook."  (Art by Ville Ranta)

Letter to John Bolton

Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin.

John Bolton:

"It is unconscionable to allow Russia to assault Ukraine’s sovereignty, recruit enemies like North Korea to aid in their fight, and then sell out the Ukrainians by conceding the loss of their territory and NATO security guarantees or membership.  By making these and others concessions before negotiations even started, Trump has effectively surrendered to Putin on Ukraine. "

Dear John, I will say ...

The EU had seven years to resolve the conflict, but our weak leaders couldn't do it, they just froze it.

Here's unfortunately the result  of the weakness of our leaders.

Ukraine is losing more than just the Crimean peninsula. Much more.

Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin see that there will be raised concerns as a very worrying rise in conservative, masculine forces across the global stage.

Reflecting on the war in Ukraine, Marin adding that “Europe couldn’t cope on our own”. 

She emphasis the need for Europe to have “strategic autonomy”, saying that there will be “one reality that we have to wake up to and we need to do better in the future."

“The thing that we should learn isn’t that we should depend on the US, the thing that we should learn is actually that we should be more independent. We need that strategic autonomy on defence, on energy, that we learned when Russia used energy as a weapon towards the European Union.”

I agree.

The Archetypes and happiness

The Archetypes and Collective Unconscious, by C.G. Jung.

Here comes Carl Jung's paradox: 

“All factors which are generally assumed to make for happiness can, under certain circumstances, produce the contrary. No matter how ideal your situation may be, it does not necessarily guarantee happiness.”

So it was in 1960, one journalist Gordon Young asked Jung:

"What do you consider to be more or less basic factors making for happiness in the human mind?" 

Jung answered with five elements:

1. Good physical and mental health.

2. Good personal and intimate relationships, such as those of marriage, the family, and friendships.

3. The ability for perceiving beauty in art and nature.

4. Reasonable standards of living and satisfactory work.

5. A philosophic or religious point of view capable of coping successfully with the vicissitudes of life 

 .. and can structure the world, I think so.

“From the unconscious there

emanate determining influences…

which, independently of tradition,

 guarantee in every single individual

a similarity and even a sameness

of experience, and also of the way

it is represented imaginatively.” 

(The Archetypes and 

the Collective Unconscious, Carl Jung)