I’ve been asked to do this by some readers who prefer to listen, so shall try to publish the audio every week.
Welcome to Absurdistan is reader-funded. I am so grateful for all subscribers and of course, paid subscribers, and especially for those who renew. I don’t paywall, and won’t and I charge less than anyone because I want to make entry easy. We were late this week because a giant visiting Labrador bit my little Pan, which meant we were driving back and forth to the vet and I lost a day. Country life, eh?
I bought 30 acres of scrub land when I was working in London and over the years have - through bone crushing labor - turned it to paradise. Many of the ideas of green are solid and I have used them. When I subdivided, the process I used is now taught as a case study in good green development in local colleges. Good development means the enhancement of beauty and health, not destruction. That said, the land, taken care of, recovers much faster after extraction and building, than broken culture, broken families and towns. Scrub land to forest park adds massive value, and that could and should happen everywhere.
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Elizabeth Nickson was trained as a reporter at the London bureau of Time Magazine. She became European Bureau Chief of LIFE magazine in its last years of monthly publication, and during that time, acquired the rights to Nelson Mandela’s memoir before he was released from Robben Island. She went on to write for Harper’s Magazine, the Guardian, the Observer, the Independent, the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times Magazine, the Telegraph, the Globe and Mail and the National Post.
She put herself through seven years of university by starting three small, successful, businesses and holds a Masters in Business Administration which gave her the grounding to write about the Trump revolution’s economic policy,
Her first book The Monkey Puzzle Tree was an investigation of the CIA MKULTRA mind control program and was published by Bloomsbury and Knopf Canada. Her next book, Eco-Fascists,,How Radical Environmentalists Are Destroying Our Natural Heritage, was a look at how environmentalism, badly practiced, is destroying the rural economy and rural culture in the U.S. and all over the world. It was published by Adam Bellow at Harper Collins US. She is a Senior Fellow at the Frontier Center for Public Policy, fcpp.org. You can read in depth policy papers about various elements of the environmental junta here: https://independent.academia.edu/ElizabethNickson.
Her essay on the catastrophic failings of Canada's CBC is included in Michael Walsh’s Against the Corporate Media, 42 Ways the Press Hates You.
