CONTENTS
Trouble brewing Issue 334 September/October 2022
1 WELCOME 4 COMMUNITY 5 EVENTS
Artwork by Katherine Streeter www.katherinestreeter.com
ECOLOGIST
6 EDITORS’ PICKS 7 TURNING UP THE HEAT A trip to Morocco gets Yasmin Dahnoun thinking about COP27 8 END OF THE WORLD, END OF THE MONTH –
ONE FIGHT Fossil fuel dependency is driving up the cost of living,
warns Simon Pirani 10 PAYING THE PRICE A new report urges change in how we value Nature,
writes Adrienne Buller
CONNECTED LIFE
12 PREDATORS AND POLITICS Roman Goergen visits a rewilding project in Portugal 17 KEEPING 1.5 ALIVE
Mukti Mitchell speaks with the co-founder of a campaign behind the Climate and Ecology Bill 18 PORTRAIT OF A COW
A new film prompts Nicola Cutcher to take a deeper look into the dairy industry 22 BRIDGING THE URBAN–RURAL DIVIDE
Edward Davey interviews author Anna Jones about her new book
FEATURE STORY
24 A NEW WORLDVIEW Vandana K speaks with acclaimed author Amitav
Ghosh about climate, colonialism and the living planet
COFFEE
30 MAKING COFFEE Marianne Brown introduces our themed section 32 COUNTING THE BEANS Farmers in Vietnam are feeling the heat, but there is hope, write Bac Pham and Marianne Brown 34 A CLIMATE CONUNDRUM Catherine Early unpicks coffee’s carbon footprint 36 THIS IS YOUR MIND ON CAFFEINE Yasmin Dahnoun speaks with author Michael Pollan about how a natural stimulant gripped humanity 38 A CUP OF CULTURE We dip into an origin story of our relationship with coffee
WISDOM & WELLBEING IN THE COMPANY OF TREES 40 THE WOLF MAPLE
Kristin Hurlin describes her gratitude for a local resident 42 SWEET DELIGHT Jini Reddy savours childhood memories of a Canadian icon
44 STARTING A NEW CHAPTER We need to move on from the story of separation, urges
Satish Kumar 46 THE LAW AS IF PEOPLE AND PLANET MATTER Martin Polden and Diana Schumacher celebrate 30
years of a charity inspired by E.F. Schumacher that helps communities 48 KEEPING TRADITION IN SUSTAINABLE STYLE Zainab Mahmood reports on a second-hand South
Asian clothing business that is combining fashion, culture and respect for the Earth
2 Resurgence & Ecologist
September/October 2022