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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
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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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