‘One Welfare’ is a way of thinking.
An aspiration to live harmoniously with other living beings.
Human progresss moving forward together with others.
This can seem an overwhelming challenge. So much of existence can seem about competition and acquisition.
But collaboration and community are equally a part of our evolutionary inheritance.
‘One Welfare’ is not an idle concept.
Currently humans are mining the future, causing mass extinctions, raising the temperature of the atmosphere, creating catastrophic survival challenges for all life on earth. If we’d like to leave a better legacy, we need to find new ways of living and being.
The blogs and galleries on this site take a One Welfare look at the different aspects of our world – or at least they will as the site develops!
Thank you for visiting.
Donkey leading camels, Balkh, Afghanistan
And the camels said ‘we don’t mind going for weeks without water; we don’t mind eating just salt bush for weeks on end; we don’t mind carrying heavy loads across the desert; but what we really hate is being led by a donkey’
Afghan saying, told to me by a friend and colleague
As a human being, I like camels and donkeys, and like being with people who live with them well.
Gallery: A salutory tale – what happens when camels uncouple themselves from their donkey (Balkh, Afghanistan, July 2007)
