Tag: population
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To Extinction Rebellion
With gratitude for placing the poor people of our cities under even greater stress, and for your relentless efforts in alienating the rest of us to the entire concept of climate change. Can you take comfort, when you exercise in synthetic clothes, drink from plastic bottles instead of the tap, when you drive a car…
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Logic has no Conscience
I can’t be the only one bemused by the COP25 discussions in Madrid, discussions which had the savour of ‘Rescue the World’ about them. The Madrid conference appears to have ended with agreement that everybody will turn up next year in Glasgow, to talk about the same issues again, suggesting, to me, that they failed…
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Tomchik’s Ornithology
Tomchik reaches for his bag, which sits between us on the bench. “I like it here,” he says. He produces a thermos flask from within the bag’s khaki canvas depths, and proffers it. I refuse. I am meant to refuse, he is hoping I will refuse, “Me, too.” I acknowledge, as he pours himself a…
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