Colm O'Regan: 'Thanks to sustainability, weeds no longer depress me as a sign of neglect'

Sustainability’s a hard sell right now. Our impulse is just to be unsustainable for a while. We want run out into the streets shouting “WE’VE ENOUGH SUSTAINING. I WANT AN OUTDOOR HANGOVER. TAKE MY MONEY AND GIVE ME A SUBSTANDARD POLLUTING THING. I JUST WANT TO FEEL ALIVE.”

But sustainability isn’t just a joyless sequence of “stop that” and “you can’t have that” and “this is wrong”.