(Open Floor Hearing, May 2 2024) "Good afternoon and thank you to the inspectorate and the organisers. According to the UN Climate Chief, we have just two years to save the world. According to many scientists studying our planet’s climate and the 10 million species who live on this planet, it is already too late … Continue reading On Gatwick Airport’s New Proposed Runway to Hell
All power corrupts, brain power being no exception to this. At some point in our evolution, the human brain became huge. The tremendous competitive advantages of such a brain would unavoidably lead us to arrogance, as we became increasingly masterful at using this brain less as a reasoning device, and more as a weapon of … Continue reading Problem-Solving Savages at the Edge of Extinction
It is ironic but not at all surprising that, for a civilisation claiming to have taken care of its most basic needs a very long time ago, its demise will come down to the one, most basic need common to all organisms: food. Civilisations may survive without technology or organised society, but they cannot … Continue reading Food, Life and Sanity: the Triple Disappearing Act
Tonight I pasted into an AI prompt some excerpts from my cli-fi fantasy eco-thriller "A New Earth". Here's what it produced: Five minutes later, and the blue Northern Lights had entered John’s living room. Undulating slowly, sometimes speeding up, they hovered above him on the ceiling for a bit, before heading for the door. The … Continue reading A New Earth – (ILLUSTRATED)
Problem Child It has been eons since humans committed the ultimate ecosystem hubris: to dare go it alone, leaving behind the 8 million-strong species they had co-evolved with. Like rebellious teenagers, clueless of what they wanted to do with their lives, they dashed out the back window one night, abandoning the family who had nurtured … Continue reading Delusions of Independence
While nature gradually goes dark during the winter months, and plants and animals decrease their metabolic activity almost down to zero, there is one species that represents a bizarre aberration to the planet’s seasonal metabolic patterns. Humans continue to consume throughout the winter, their energy use increasing while most other species go into hibernation. Dependent … Continue reading The Lie of Clean Energy
George Tsakraklides 