Rob Hopkins’ top Transition slogans, and his imaginative “time-travel” journey to 2030 - where beavers command the landscape
We liked this tweet from Rob Hopkins - a poster they created at Transition Towns six years ago. We agree - it works better than ever.
We also note that Rob is running a series on his blog where he places a transparent helmet on his head, and conducts an imaginative exploration of a future date.
His latest is Travels in my Time Machine Part Three: visiting the Cornish beavers of 2030, where Rob wonders:
What would it sound like to live in a future in which beavers were now considered an essential part of our now rapidly-rewilding landscapes? If flooding in towns and cities across the UK was now hugely reduced thanks to the remarkable hydrological reengineering of the landscape done by these hard-working mammals higher up in the catchments for those watersheds? If their reintroduction had led to an explosion of biodiversity?…
I arrived in 2030 by the side of a lake near Laddock in Cornwall. It was early evening, and the first impression, in the stillness, was how incredibly alive the place was. Every few seconds a fish leaped from the water attempting to catch one of the many insects flying low over the water. Birds sang, bats swooped, the initial sense of calm and quiet gave way to a sense of incredibly vibrant life in a wide diversity of forms. Here’s a taste of what that 2030 sounded like: