White-speck- new for Little Oak Lodge

The back drop to this week has been Trump elected in the US and the sinking in of a new Labour administration in the UK too, both developments which confirm that we did the right thing by moving here to try and detach as much as possible from wider society to become largely immune to these chaotic and potentially dangerous shifts in 'society'. The US moves towards hyper-capitalism with a streak of nationalism (tarriffs) while the UK moves towards a bigger state and more borrowing- both scenarios likely to lead to more inflation and sticky high interest rates for the majority of people- so basically worse off in the most fundamental way (money in your pocket). General Americans may have managed to make it harder for people who they've never met , have never bothered them personally and only heard about on social media from immigrating to america, having abortions and changing their gender but they've had to become poorer for it. That's the objective of polarisation and populism I guess.   

From what I could see there were no big wins for nature and while green transition regulation may increase in the smaller UK economy (there's already a new net zero body according to Dieter Helm), in the US mega economy massive de-regulation and tax cuts are proposed. 

I can't see anything else apart from the fundamental trend unabated in late stage 'Capitalism or what ever this System is' which is a transfer of wealth into fewer hands, lowering of general living standards, citizen disempowerement through polarisation and a relentless onslaught on nature and a rise of CO2 in the atmosphere. The chanages in adminstration, from left to right on one side of the Atlantic and right to left on the other side,  more or less represent the hyneas giving the vultures a turn at the carcass with both administrations producing economies with higher inflation and higher interest rates to continue the trickle up of wealth into fewer and fewer hands, while extinctions escalate, nature declines and the climate turns to chaos. 

Over throwing these archaic economic systems with AI multi-index global systems is the only hope for people and planet from what I can see complete with carbon, biodiversity and social credit scoring systems embedded into monetary systems which incentivise re-generation and the redistribution of wealth. The battle is on for who controls those AI systems , how the algoirtms are programmed and whether any emerging AGI will have the 'intellect' to model the human condition and attempt to reprogramme it in order to short circuit our early pioneering condition (growth) and switch it to sustainable condition (maturity).   

Anyway, before any new fundamental system can emerge at scale more global citizens need to lose total faith in the current political system, stop voting, start jeopardising and start switching. The plan here is to undergo that switch by establishing as much self reliance and self sufficiency as possible and wire it all into emerging global big data systems and AIs, set up carbon and biodiveristy accounts and invest in regeneration and sustainability- seemingly very long term investments if the apparant faith in Trump or any political solution seems greater than ever at the moment.  Evolution in many ways can only progress through the predator-prey relationship so in the human jungle global predators will continue to increase in power feeding on and domestication of (detachment from nature) of the working and middle classes until the environment changes (of asteroid impact scale) which is unable to sustain that.  

So with that in mind, work round here this week has included new apple tree planting, continuing work on the perimter fruit hedges, with the help of Kyle and Matt we've got Holly's caravan into position for her ecohippy-chic upcycle for additional accommadation (and doubling up as an escape pod), I've lost about 3% on the bonds I invested in thinking that people wouldn't vote for more inflation and higher rates (silly boy!), Isaac is destroying all the food that we've planted in the raised beds and the moth trapping and natural capital data base building has resulted in trapping a White-speck- a new for the garden. The Firecrest is still around but vis-mig has dropped right off. 

Also this week, bumped into Arjun at Little Woodcote and jammed into a Black Redstart that he had just found. Nick and Ian appeared soon after so a small and brief Beddington reunion . 

White-speck (aka American Wainscot) with a rather small Large Wainscot (which I confused for a Cosmopolitan at first)

White-speck- 402 species now recorded here (since June) 

White-point- not seen one in weeks so nice to get as a comparison with White-speck

At the moment Holly's project looks like the Irish travellers have descended on Little Oak Lodge- apparantely this is going to look the nuts. Holly's page HERE.