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Professionally I'm an Earth scientist, specialising in groundwater, hydrology, geomorphology and geochemistry. I work for a global engineering firm, mostly in the water sector.

I am also interested in Gaia theory and unified environmental systems approaches. I have studied aspects of evolutionary biology and history of life and the evolution of life on Earth. In addition to higher degrees in Environmental Sciences and Geology I hold an undergraduate degree in Philosophy. I am into foraging, mushrooms, camping, hiking, rock climbing, wild swimming, poetry, literature. I started studying geopolitics and the global financial system in the early 2000s and have a reasonable working knowledge of the global financial system. This has led me to a study of collapse theories and an appreciation of our modern predicament, a conjunction of energy, resource and environmental crises. Personally I think that Western civilisation has peaked, and that globally we will not be able to sustain industrial civilisation in its present state at all.

That isn't as bad as it sounds! I have come to a much greater appreciation of permaculture approaches and nature spirituality, and it is these themes I wish to pursue in future.