It all began with…

Sue Nethercott
7 min readJan 18, 2024

How does life compare now with when you were younger? Is it getting better?

Picture of Earth from space
“The Blue Marble”: Earth as seen from outer space, taken by the crew of Apollo 17 on 7 December 1972

We all have different priorities, interests and circumstances, so when and how we realise that change is happening can vary.

Politics and power

“It all began with Reagan”, Thom Hartmann sometimes says. And here in the UK it started a couple of years before that, when Maggie Thatcher became…

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Sue Nethercott

Open University BA, UMIST MSc, OU BSc Environmental Studies. Interests: environment, COVID19. Double #ostomate. Thom Hartmann’s newsletter editor. Views my own.