I have just put my nomination form in to become the campaigns officer for the Green Party of East Hampshire. Why? - To support the party - To learn a new role - To improve my motivational speeches - To help the candidates - it can be a lonely journey - To practice what I preach The next elections are scheduled for May this year.

I knew you wanted to be a part of this. But left you to decide the moment! Welcome - I know you are already a member of many groups, so I will keep this short. I send out emails once a week at most. I don't want you to feel busy, but take a course or lesson at a time, and over time, you will know as much as I do. @Ruben Plasmeijer runs a Skool group called CLUES. It encourages people to explore the world with curiosity and use that medium to learn more about it and yourself.

Thank you all for being here — and welcome to our 30th member. This space is still in its early days, and there’s a lot happening behind the scenes. Some of what I’m working on will start appearing in the Classroom soon. There’s already a substantial amount of material there to explore, and I genuinely welcome any feedback you’re willing to share. I’m actively learning what works and what doesn’t — both here and by being part of other communities — and I’m refining things as we go. Right now, the Classroom is unapologetically dense. It’s a wall of data. Valuable, but heavy. That’s intentional — at least at this stage. I wanted to properly understand how we got here: What was known, when it was known, and what happened after we found out. We all know that end-of-the-world messaging is a hard sell — and an even harder foundation for elections or collective action. But some of us (me included) prefer a cold dose of reality over comforting stories. I’d rather know the truth than be sold unrealistic dreams. For years, I watched documentary after documentary about nature and wildlife. They’d show collapsing ecosystems, vanishing species — and then end with a hopeful note about one valiant individual making a tiny difference. That always frustrated me. It felt… incomplete. Too small. As if the scale of the problem was being quietly minimised. Almost like being gently gaslit into optimism. So I kept asking: why is everything taking so long? What I’m finding is layer upon layer of inertia. Systems designed to preserve the status quo. Not through conspiracy — but through structure, incentives, and daily habits. I wanted to understand how that inertia actually works in practice. What slows things down. What bypasses it. What genuinely moves the needle. While working on this, global events have inevitably affected my own mood and optimism — the actions of the U.S. president, the ongoing slaughter in Gaza, the absence of meaningful leadership across much of Europe and the wider world.

HI Liam - welcome to Has2BGreen This group is about learning about climate change - I have been involved for years and "kind og knew" what I was talking about, but decided that kind of was not good enough. So I am exploring the subject deeply - attempting to work out not only the science but the mechanisms behind the issue of climate change and the full impact that it is having on the world's ecology and our desire to survive. I want to have the answers for my kids, for people I speak to, and when I run for government again (if that is what happens), I want to know the most effective way to help make change happen. So this is an exploration and a sharing of what I find. If you see something that doesn't make sense, or you have a different view, I would love to hear it and explore it further. Please, everyone, welcome Liam.

Over the past few weeks I’ve been quietly building something important behind the scenes. Not solutions yet — first, the map of the system we’re trying to change. There are three strands coming together: 1️⃣ How the political system actually works Not the civics-textbook version — but how decisions really get slowed, redirected, or quietly killed. Who sets the agenda. Where power bottlenecks sit. Why “doing the right thing” so often stalls. 2️⃣ How the media works — and who guides it. Why some stories dominate headlines while others disappear. How ownership, incentives, and framing shape what feels “normal,” “realistic,” or “possible.” And why confusion is not an accident. 3️⃣ The baseline system we’re operating inside. The underlying rules of the game: • how money, power, and influence interact • why inequality keeps widening • why meaningful change feels so hard, even when the evidence is overwhelming This is the terrain beneath climate, inequality, democracy, and everything else we care about. Before we talk about how to change the system, we need to be able to see it clearly. 📌 Reminder: The post on millionaires and power is already live — that’s one piece of this bigger picture, looking at how wealth concentrates influence. The next releases will connect the dots. No hype. No doom. Just clarity — so action becomes possible. More to follow.