Jack Lowe | Jonathan | Activity https://jacklowe.com/members/jetstream/activity/ Activity feed for Jonathan. Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:59:55 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.21.0 en-GB 30 hourly 2 786078a79f194f4e1a8b6cb30909b181 Jonathan posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/171/#acomment-178 Tue, 28 Feb 2023 08:30:29 +0000 *without* consequence

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I couldn’t really say it makes me feel any better about the climate crisis but there’s something strangely comforting about listening to Cal Flyn’s Islands of Abandonment on BorrowBox 🤔 […]

]]> 5c01fc9c6653a8500036460b7ebe9074 Jonathan posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/171/#acomment-177 Tue, 28 Feb 2023 08:28:38 +0000 In George Monbiot’s book ‘Feral’ he talks about visiting rural areas that were pretty much abandoned during and after the war in Croatia where nature was thriving. He went fishing in a river and as he returned a local asked him what he’d been doing. He told him he’d been fishing and the man said ‘“There’s no fish in the river any more”, George… Read more

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I couldn’t really say it makes me feel any better about the climate crisis but there’s something strangely comforting about listening to Cal Flyn’s Islands of Abandonment on BorrowBox 🤔 […]

]]> db6755f66e9e294638eec2d35724311c Jonathan posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/161/#acomment-163 Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:54:28 +0000 There are so many amazing points and concepts in this talk not least of which: “just like any good abusive system we have been made dependent upon the very system that is exploiting us”. There’s the crux of the problem for those of us who live in the West – if we bring down the system we pull the rug from under our own feet. Somehow we need to… Read more

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One of the books that has influenced my thinking the most about the human destruction of other species is Derek Jenson’s Endgame. This is him explaining the premises of that […]

]]> 73cd0168c1ea9a644abee7ff51534f6a Jonathan posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/136/#acomment-160 Fri, 24 Feb 2023 09:49:19 +0000 Very good. We used to participate in imagining sessions along these lines with a very forward looking green farmer locally who seems to have disappeared without trace during lockdown (I do hope he’s alright). I’m sad to say that as I watch there’s a seed of cynicism about humans that makes me sad that this sort of vision may never become a… Read more

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We can be whatever we have the courage to see

A Message From the Future

This is the kind of vision we need to shine light into the darkness and carry us into […]

]]> fc63c83909ef1557c28b3c7b38e10faf Jonathan posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/145/#acomment-155 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:28:05 +0000 The trouble is that a lot of things change all the time, what was right once isn’t right any more. I just did refresher for my first aid and my head is still full of the best part of 50 years worth of first aid training most of which is now wrong!

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I think this profile photo (by some obscure photographer called Jack Lowe) was taken on the actual day I stopped drinking alcohol. It was taken on the noisiest campsite in the World […]

]]> d8c275e4b4d4e9511ed394a1512c4101 Jonathan posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/145/#acomment-154 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:25:04 +0000 It’s a label that I’ve never been tagged with – as I’ve got older I just assume that I’m wrong about everything.

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I think this profile photo (by some obscure photographer called Jack Lowe) was taken on the actual day I stopped drinking alcohol. It was taken on the noisiest campsite in the World […]

]]> 4aee7b673d2df06fdd63b4c1c9007ea0 Jonathan posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/145/#acomment-152 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 13:54:47 +0000 I checked, you’re right of course (have you ever not been right? I think you’d find it an interesting experience) – but you have to admit that I do maintain an excellent level of sartorial consistency.

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I think this profile photo (by some obscure photographer called Jack Lowe) was taken on the actual day I stopped drinking alcohol. It was taken on the noisiest campsite in the World […]

]]> 3b9ac48059717f09d5d35b15afd600c2 Jonathan posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/145/#acomment-149 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:44:26 +0000 Wasn’t it the same day as this one?

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I think this profile photo (by some obscure photographer called Jack Lowe) was taken on the actual day I stopped drinking alcohol. It was taken on the noisiest campsite in the World […]

]]> 6a47f95bd3066cd17f8e52b874d5ae77 Jonathan posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/145/#acomment-148 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:41:58 +0000 I beg to disagree

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I think this profile photo (by some obscure photographer called Jack Lowe) was taken on the actual day I stopped drinking alcohol. It was taken on the noisiest campsite in the World […]

]]> 6c8e772c36f9d7d91d84e322c051bc2d Jonathan posted an update: I think this profile photo (by some obscure […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/145/ Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:55:43 +0000 I think this profile photo (by some obscure photographer called Jack Lowe) was taken on the actual day I stopped drinking alcohol. It was taken on the noisiest campsite in the World at the very apex of where the A483 and A539 meet, in easy walking distance of a busy service station. Earplugs are now a standard part of my camping equipment.…

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