This column is written with the same sadness that all of us feel today. Our world is balanced on its rim, and none of us know what is going to happen, or what the consequences will be for ourselves, our children, or the people we love. In my Journalism section, you will find a strongly pacifist column that I wrote for The Guardian here in England. I do not feel that war is a solution. The hawkish response of the media and the government to the bombing of the Twin Towers is not everywhere matched by a similar response from the people whose lives will be altered forever by war of any kind.
War is a terrible way to start the twenty first century.
This could have been a new golden age. This could have been the century that started a different world. I was in a hut in the middle of a forest. The hut has no running water and no power. You can read about it in one of the Building Design columns this month.