The pandemic unleashed a strange half-world - not the comfortably familiar one we all knew and loved, but one in which we had to tread carefully and remain vigilant. Subsequently, it became a game of risk management that created tensions between the political desire to return to some form of normality and the need to protect lives. Inevitably, this conflict of interests led to confusion, confrontation and, sadly, deaths. Despite some catastrophic misjudgements at the governmental level, we ourselves must also shoulder some of the blame. Social media added fuel to the fire for those who chose…mehr
The pandemic unleashed a strange half-world - not the comfortably familiar one we all knew and loved, but one in which we had to tread carefully and remain vigilant. Subsequently, it became a game of risk management that created tensions between the political desire to return to some form of normality and the need to protect lives. Inevitably, this conflict of interests led to confusion, confrontation and, sadly, deaths. Despite some catastrophic misjudgements at the governmental level, we ourselves must also shoulder some of the blame. Social media added fuel to the fire for those who chose to challenge the official guidance as an infringement on their personal freedoms and rights and preferred to interpret events as evidence of institutional conspiracies. Amid this mayhem, our planet was suffering. It was estimated that one million of our eight million species on Earth are threatened with extinction - some within decades. A report by WWF and the Zoological Society of London revealed that animal populations globally had plunged by 68% in more than twenty thousand populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish in the last fifty years.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
I was born in Hull in 1950. Having graduated in English at Leeds University, I worked for Newcastle upon Tyne City Libraries for 20 years, where I wrote articles for professional journals as well as giving talks to national conferences and seminars around the country. I then moved into liaison work between councillors, voluntary agencies and the community for various local authorities in the north-east of England until I retired in 2007. My work included writing a revised submission for Newcastle's New Deal for Communities' to Central Government which received £50 million funding, and leading a community involvement exercise which led to the establishment of the Sunderland Arc Urban Regeneration Company. As Partnership Manager at South Tyneside, I managed 40 staff in area working, community safety and health and drug action issues within the Borough Council, which was recognized in it achieving its first national Beacon status for neighbourhood working. As a visiting lecturer at the University of Northumbria, I gave talks on health and regeneration, partnership working and community engagement.
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