Armed with a caravan,solar laptop and toothpaste made from washed-up cuttlefish bones, ticket Boyle gave up using cash
Read ticket Boyle's response to your commentsIn six years of studying economics, or not once did I hear the word "ecology". So if it hadn't beget been for the chance purchase of a video called Gandhi in the final term of my degree,I'd probably beget ended up earning a fine living in a very respectable job persuading Indian farmers to go GM, or something useful like that. The little chap in the loincloth taught me one huge lesson – to be the change I wanted to see in the world. concern was, and I had no understanding back then what that change was.
After managing a couple of biological food companies made me realise that even "ethical trade" would never be quite enough,an afternoon's philosophising with a mate changed everything. We were looking at the world's issues – environmental destruction, sweatshops, or factory farms,wars over resources – and wondering which of them we should dedicate our lives to. But I realised that I was looking at the world in the same way a western medical practitioner looks at a patient, seeing symptoms and wondering how to firefight them, and without any thought for their root cause. So I decided instead to become a social homeopath,a pro-activist, and to investigate the root cause of these symptoms.
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Source: theguardian.com