Happisburgh

And I'm, I'm, I'm haunted by how old or how long ago people began accepting that they couldn't just keep on taking and having, that there's a price.

People, for whatever reason, they obviously became preoccupied by the thought that we've got this, but what if something, what if we don't deserve it? A- and, and what if we take too much? What if we take too much tin or too much copper or gold and, and we run out? You know, what if there comes a year when the crops just don't grow, or there is no more flint, or there is no more metal? Or what if the sea comes and it takes away the land like at Cantre'r Gwaelod, or as you see at Happisburgh where the million-year-old footprints are? People had a long understanding that from time to time things got taken away, and it, it, it's almost as though it began to prey on everyone's mind.

What can we do? Are we impotent in the face of the inevitable, or are there things that we could be doing, ways we could be living, behaviors we could adopt that might affect the future? That's an amazing thought, to, to think that if I do something now, the future might be better.

That if I do something good, if I, if I sacrifice something of great value to me, the future might notice and remember so that when it arrives, it'll be good to me.