Abstract Thursday - Safe

A day of two halves. In the morning I rode out to Hawkwood College to hear Jojo Mehta, co-founder of StopEcocide: Change the Law, and Gail Bradbrook, founder of Extinction Rebellion, speak for Polly Higgins who could not be there to speak for herself, having passed last Sunday.

I guess many folk will know about Extinction Rebellion now, their having made the news by closing London for a few days. StopEcocide began as Mission Lifeforce and rebranded while Polly was finalising her affairs. 

StopEcocide is a drive to put the crime of ecocide - the destruction of ecosystems - back into the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court where it was originally intended - before Britain and a couple of other countries veto'd it. I became a trustee "Earth Protector" and signatory to its legal 'conscientious protector' document when the project began.

If successful - and it could work! - it would make corporations criminally liable for the harm they cause, even if they had all the government permissions! Check the links and maybe you can be an Earth protector too!

The afternoon was spent trying to make two new stair gates fit our staircase! It's been a quarter of a century since we've needed stair gates, but with Ivy gaining her feet it's become once more important to limit access. The upstairs one, pictured with a few adjustments, was easy; the downstairs one needs some timber currently getting a gloss coat.

I also washed the windows. Janet started cleaning them, and I'm afraid that just made them even worse. So off I go, and the minor mishap of falling off the steps and tipping my wash-bucket all over the bedroom floor was simply part of the payback for commenting on the smears...

Not every part of today was safe. Happy 200th, Abstract Thursday!