6 October

Bathurst’s bats. This will happen more all the time now, as we trash the rest of the landscape and plants and animals come looking for somewhere to survive. I came up with a concept of ‘reality-based politics’, which means no matter what anybody believes, the ultimate decider for all ideas is reality. Covid and climate change are like that, people have their opinions. All of them are irrelevant, reality will decide the outcome. You can see the great Nobel-prize winning novelist Albert Camus said the same thing about pandemics. We’re too ‘wrapped up in ourselves’. Social media has vastly magnified that wrapping. We’re more likely to take a selfie in front of these bats than do anything about it. We don’t know what to do, even if we wanted to.