Nothing to do with much really, but a few weeks or months ago, time is passing too fast to know, the Australian prime minister apologised to the Aborigine "lost children" - those children who were forcibly taken from their families so they could be integrated into "proper" Australain families, children who never knew about the Dreaming, of the serpent gods or the creation myths of their people who had spent at least 40, maybe 60-70,000 years in their land. The Aussie govt apologised. This is a start, and perhaps they'll now get to thinking about how to give back what they took. Little by little, a more equal world can be remade. Then if New Zealand, Canada and the US honour their agreements that all land taken by force or by tricky means, perhaps the ancient peoples will have something to live for again.

But that's another story. Late last year, I had a vision. It started with rising seas and storms. And in one moment, Rotterdam, in Holland, became submerged by the uncontrolled seas. It was very bizarre for me because even though I'm European, I know nothing about Rotterdam. What I saw was a landscape covered with oil - perhaps refineries, ships. OK, Rotterdam is a port, but why did I see this flooding and oil everywhere? Talking to a Dutch friend afterwards, he explained that all around Rotterdam are refineries and that it's one of the major entry points for oil into Europe by sea...

Then the image changed and the sea itself became black, covered with oil. I heard war sirens, like those that rang out over London in the world wars. Then the oil burst into flames and I saw a man who resembled Bin Laden, but his face was a mixture of Arabic, Jewish, White, Chinese - it was everything. This man put the first flame to the oil. It is the beginning of the rout of mankind. In fact, the whole scene was like an image of Hades.

Then my guides told me not to worry about the first vision as this would be a few years away. And not to worry about the second vision, as this would come afterwards, but both would come about before we are supposed to do something serious about global warming (2020)... very comforted, I asked for another vision, and was hoping for something more comforting. Instead, I saw waves and wind hammer a small Asian coastline, the people and the animals thrown around like leaves in a tempest. All the while, there was an army gereral saying something like, "don't worry, everything will be all right, go back to your homes and stay inside". While he was saying this, the homes were levelled by the power of the sea. My guides told me this would happen around Beltane. Clearly, it is what is going on in Burma right now.

I want to follow the lead of the Australian PM and apologise to the Burmese people. To apologise for everything that I've done that has contributed to creating a situation of changing climate. The two million miles I flew in planes, the fast cars, the Suburban, always wanting more things, better and less expensive, the huge house running the A/C all the time... I know it's not much, but I'm sorry for what I've personally done that has directly resulted in the deaths of probably 70,000 people before we're done in Burma, this time. And I know that there will be more storms, more tidal waves, and perhaps millions who will die in the low-lying deltas of India, Bangladesh, Burma and so on...

I know I only contributed a tiny bit, and I know that I've renounced that life, but it's still hard to accept. And it's hard not to think "if only we had done things differently, earlier"...

I hope we change. Burma, I'm sorry.