Mother Nature

“Mother Nature reigns supreme, both literally and figuratively.”

“I’ve learned a lot about what I might get,” she said, “but Mother Nature always has her monkey wrench in hand.”

In the midst of Belém’s COP30 bedlam, environmentalists, economists, lobbyists and diplomats busily haggle at the global climate conference about what we can and cannot get away with in negotiations over Mother Nature.

Mother Nature had planned it all perfectly, for the tulips showed every intention of bursting into bloom four weeks hence, at the beginning of May, just as the Barking—that is to say, Bouncing—Baby Ashton was due to arrive.

These are Mother Nature’s ordinary challenges.