I’m far too tired for anything close to what I need to write about today, so this is going to be a very brief post. While I’m often quite cynical about USI (the Union of Students of Ireland), today Kim, the environmental officer, ran a day-long workshop that, while not being massively attended, hit the right notes for me. It re-awoke me to the climate chaos that we are facing; the challenges of peak oil; the mass extinction of species; the environmental refugees and above all; our responsibilities as individual members of Irish society to change our behaviour. I’ll need to get in to far more detail about this, but I don’t know if I can continue to kid myself that peak oil and climate change are issues that are being dealt with by enough people. I get the very worrying idea that I have to do something about this.

So, difficult day (lots of hard truths to swallow) but incredible overall. Finished it off at a burlesque show, taking photos. Fantastic fun. Just loading the photos on to my laptop now, so I am very much hoping that at least 10 of the 518 photos I snapped come out well.

More about the environmental stuff and how it’s not someone else’s job on Monday. Please, come back for it. It is that important.