by Ciarán O’Rourke A decade ago I began to form a habit that in the intervening years has evolved into a strange passion: going to the cinema, and watching movies, alone. Two films in particular, from those early days, seemed so urgent and exhilarating, so attuned to what was then…
Category: Ecology
Climate Change
Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation, by Sudeep Sen
Poems Reviewed by Peter Cowlam The term ‘Anthropocene’ has been proposed as the definition of the geological epoch dating from the start of significant human impact on the earth, and on its ecosystems. Anthropocene is also the title of Sudeep Sen’s latest (multi-genre) book of poetry, prose and photography –…
Art
OF THE EARTH
by Thomas Gilbert Life’s fortunes take us down a trailThrough fog and wind and rain and hailBut sometimes sun and warmth and peacecome by to help us find release. Jamie, do you want to go sledding at the toboggan run this afternoon? Her dad asks her. Oh, yes. I’d love…
Boris Johnson
Tick tock, tick tock . . .
. . . says the Doomsday clock Zombie Apocalypse, 25 th July 2021 By Gordon Liddle It looks as though the scientists who run the Doomsday Clock will be shaving another second off it sometime soon. The world is slowly going mad. Après Moi, Le Deluge. So, Parliament has broken…
Ecology
Catastrophes are not for drama queens
For the bipolar British middle class global warming is the emotional equivalent to the death of Princess Diana. The debate about global warming parallels the debate about nuclear catastrophe. We are as close as we ever were to catastrophe, to the danger of bio-warfare, chemical warfare and nuclear warfare. To…
Ecology
Born to Respect the Wild
We grew up up understanding that nature is wild and and dangerous. By Phil Hall In a film that hasn’t really stood the test of time, My Dinner with Andre, one of the characters played by Wallace Shawn says: I enjoy getting up in the morning and having the cold…
Ecology
Born to Respect the Wild
We grew up up understanding that nature is wild and and dangerous. By Phil Hall In a film that hasn’t really stood the test of time, My Dinner with Andre, one of the characters played by Wallace Shawn says: I enjoy getting up in the morning and having the cold…
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