On the Beach in the arctic north
This article was originally published on here on AttiCusInk, but has been migrated to my Newsvine column. On the Beach was one of the few mandatory books I read in high school. As Nevil Shute’s radioactive, WWIII cloud crept towards Melbourne I felt, for the first time, the tension of imagining death as a real … Read more
No more than a theory
This article was originally published on here on AttiCusInk, but has been migrated to my Newsvine column. In February, 2006, MEP Caroline Lucas asked Andris Piebalgs about the European Commission’s strategy for dealing with peak oil production. Piebalgs responded by saying that peak oil production constitutes “no more than a theory” and stated that the … Read more
