Travelling at the speed of bread *

The speed of modern lives is insane.

Over the years, carving out weekly time for making bread has became a barometer for my busyness.

No bread in the house this week ? Too much busyness. Slow down.

As February begins, and trying to honour winter’s stillness, (where my body still wants to be) - my mind, diary and task lists are filling up and accelerating at pace.

Add into the mix paying attention to my family’s needs, preparing food, house chores, life admin and I’m out of time before I’ve barely started.

The speed of modern lives is insane.

And not just the impacts on human health and wellbeing.

The faster and more complex civilisational systems become, the more energy and materials they require, all extracted from a finite Earth - inputs.

These growing complex systems inflict more damage and impacts on the living systems of the Earth through their functioning - outputs .

All of this accelerates instability in climate and the Earth’s system (that humans are nested within)… well you can see where this is taking us.

The entangled crisis of climate, ecology and human health is partly a speed crisis which requires a massive slowing down, a synching back into Earth's rhythms.

Can you imagine a world where we subsidised slowing down ?

Supporting citizens and communities to co-create regenerative systems and infrastructure that serves life itself,  instead of subsidising extractive infrastructure and industries to make us go faster and destroy life.

*(proper slow sourdough bread)

#regeneration #climatechange #sustainability #polycrisis