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Opinion column no 1 -- October 2020  

Fiction informs fact -- fact informs fiction -- the history of our growth informs our environmental distress --
 

   Cautionary tale. The 'developed' world is built on cars, central heating and air conditioning, 'artificial' materials for the fabrication of clothes and things, vast reserves of fossil fuel, endless concrete and steel, a sense of an ability to feed everyone,  pesticides, 'artificial' fertilizers, irrigation systems, jet travel, refrigeration, pharmaceuticals that stop disease spreading or extend life, anesthetics, pain killers, sterility of environments, endless, it seems, cloud storage. Most of us love most of these.
 

   Green Scarf stories tries to be about our complicity. We want and then we wonder: cheap flights, cheap gas/petrol, cheap heating, life extended, the 'right' food, the right to reproduce?
 

   The paradigm Green Scarf Story is this: we want, we have, air travel -- say -- we see the side effects, we don't really know how to get a consensus for change, let alone how to change. The air plane industry employs hundreds of thousands.  

 

 

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