Previously … European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Alexander Gerst once told (Josef) Aschbacher (Chief Executive Officer of ESA), after returning from the International Space Station, that the view from space changes everything. Gerst told the ESA boss that he wishes all eight billion people on Earth could go to space just once and see what he saw – a small, fragile, beautiful planet, cared for not nearly well enough by the species lucky enough to live on it. “That,” says Aschbacher, “would create a very different life on planet Earth.”

Our Final Chance, Save the Planet About eight years ago I had a discussion on with a local dairy farmer about feeding the world or saving the planet, our final chance. Which must we do first? Save the planet was and still is my answer and scientifically the correct answer, his was the opposite, biased of course in support of his industry. Since then things have changed, the Science has improved (of course, that’s what science does by definition) and the problems we face from climate change are far worse than we thought, even just five years ago. We need farmers who think.  We need farmers who are well educated…