cquester

On 18th  Sept 2024 Chris  set out to walk east to west across  the UK,  from Lowestoft, the  most  easterly  population centre  to  the  Pembroke  Coast, the  most  westerly point.  Completing 110 miles in the first 5 days , the last  51 of  which was walked in 2  days, Chris  developed  serious  blisters and had to abandon his  crusade  However he will return in Spring 2025 to  complete the  remaining 300 miles. During the first 5 days walking he shared short videos  each day focusing on various issues related to rural UK, how it is broken and how, through  greater vision, investment and commitment  it  might  offer  better value, better  production and better opportunity.  While  the UK's  landscape  has  seemingly  sustained  us for  2000  years, there  have, particularly  over the last 150 years , been periods  when food  production has  been outsourced to other parts of the world.  A planet  threatened  by the extreme  effects of climate change  will  require  the  UK's  unbuilt  areas  to be far more productive  and far more  multifunctional.  With  minimal  influence  in a world  still dominated  by  the  US politics   and  negligible  ability  to  reduce  global green house  gas emissions,  Britain  must  prepare  itself  to be able  to withstand  significant  changes in  weather and  economic  fortunes.