Tag: making

The pious Greenies are making matters worse

The writer is in Australia. ONCE upon a time in the West, anxious Greenies tied themselves to trees in the path of bulldozers to prevent the building of a new road, or dam, or anything that might improve the lot of human residents at the expense of nature. By the 1970s, Tasmania’s industrial and residential […]

The joy of making unexpected new friends

THERE’S an old saying: It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good.  The truth of this has come home forcefully to me recently as, although the past few years have been horrendous thanks to the covid and allied hysteria, there have been some surprising and unlooked-for benefits. Chief of these has been the forming […]