How You Live

Below, we have started to compile a guide to some basics about the life we all now lead. We explain our reasoning rather than merely providing bald links. But, obviously, the opinions are our own and as is true for all the Internet, you follow links at your own risk.

The Climate – Everyone’s Context

The planet’s climate. Whenever we think about the future, we keep coming back to the conclusion – the reality – that the planet’s climate underpins absolutely everything. And we mean everything. The lives of the people we love and care about and every other life too. Every hope and ambition; every pleasure; everything you value; everything you’ve fought for; everything that makes up all our day-to-day lives, whoever you are, wherever you live. Without a human-friendly climate, everything we value about our lives will end. (A New Future, which lives under the Unstated umbrella, offers a positive way forward.)

Wiki – Climate Change
In addition to A New Future, this Wikipedia entry on climate change is itself large, but it offers a very broad range of information and links that together comprise excellent ways in to the topic that will dominate all our lives – whether we want it to or not. And from the sites it links to, there are more links, more options … and so on.

Your Privacy

If, when you think about privacy, you think ‘oh, I’m not worried, I’ve nothing to hide’, what you need to remember is it’s not up to you whether what you do online is safe and/or acceptable. If your identity is stolen you can find yourself with huge problems, not least financial. And if all you do online is look at pictures of paint drying, if someone decides paint companies are the enemy and so are people who use their products, you’re guilty by association.

Amnesty International
For some practical ways to protect your online privacy, this Amnesty International page seems a sensible start point – not least because they have nothing to gain from the advice they offer.

Onerep
The Onerep site’s advice can perhaps feel a bit too American, but don’t be put off – they offer a lot of good, do-able advice.

Your Privacy – Web Browsers

Looking just at web browsers – we all use one for our everyday life online. We can all end up just using the default browser we happen to have installed, but it is always worth questioning whether the one you use is best from the point of view of your privacy.

Lifewire/TheWindowsClub
The Lifewire overview (2025) gives a reasonable look at what’s available. And don’t forget you can use more than one browser if their different strengths suit different tasks. There’s a larger but Windows only listing on TheWindowsClub.

Your Privacy – How You Search

And as with browsers, it’s easy to default to whatever search engine you already use – when in fact there are plenty of others, often with valuable strengths. And, yes, you can use different ones for different purposes. The crucial things to remember are a) that no search engine is inherently right, and b) that the search engine you use may be skewing the results you see so they can earn from it.

Don’t Just Google It
This PC Mag round-up (2025) of search engines struck us as a good start point. The time you spend getting the right one(s) for you should over time reward your effort.

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