Nature used to be an all-you-can-eat buffet, with inexhaustible resources available to every species on the planet. The food cycle constantly regenerated with each rotation around the sun, much like sushi on a rotating conveyor belt. Humans and all the other species enjoyed this free buffet of nature for thousands of years, sometimes eating each … Continue reading Out Of Business
And on the 8th day of creation, humans took over from God and created capitalism. And capitalism took over from humans and looked down at them and said: “you are mine now”. And humans looked at their wallets, and they were full of money. And they bought everything they could buy, and killed everything in … Continue reading Creation
This planet has suffered long enough under humans, so much so that I think it deserves to finally have "a fit". To go crazy. Just literally nuts, bonkers, off the wall insane. Hasn't it waited its turn long enough? For thousands of years humans did whatever they wanted: killing, destroying, pushing ecosystems to the brink. … Continue reading Let Earth Have Her Tantrum
Within 3 weeks we have witnessed the destruction of a country, and a nation: about 1 in 4 Ukrainians are now either refugees or internally displaced, the rest of them either on the frontline or looking for food and medicine. Children are growing up with PTSD, forever psychologically scarred by the sound of bombs. Many … Continue reading Losing My Religion
Far above the Earth's atmosphere, in the peaceful silence of space, Russian and US partners of the International Space Station are squabbling over who's gonna die first if they separate. Linked at the umbilical cord, they both know that they will die without each other. But the hate is so strong. This picture is reflective … Continue reading Who Gives a Fuck about the Children
Technology has its way of accelerating the growth of a civilisation, as well as its demise. We have now crossed the point where the technology we invented has been so embedded into the fabric of our daily lives, that it feels less of a fabric and more of a spider web weaving us into a … Continue reading We Are The Suicide Bots
Our civilisation is desperate to die. It is doing everything possible within its power to put itself out of its misery in the most effective, definitive, and determined way. It does take a lot of effort to kill an entire planet. But, don't you worry. The processes of chaos, self-destruction and collapse that we have … Continue reading Deathwish
Somewhere in Ukraine's vastness, what is left of a 9-storey residential building stands like a fragile, charred skeleton, almost indistinguishable from the equally grey, angry sky behind it. Its middle section completely missing, the smoking gap is flanked on each side by two equally-sized, sister sections that seem to be pondering whether to collapse or … Continue reading When Does The Movie End?
All civilisations tend to give the false impression that, as they grow, they become more powerful, more invincible, almost unstoppable. This is an illusion. They all have one weakness, which becomes more and more pronounced, the more that they grow: Complexity. The more complexity a civilisation develops, the more fragile it becomes, just like a … Continue reading Number 81
Mr Tsakraklides' new novel gives us a clue on what could happen if Mother Nature decides to reclaim what is hers in this exciting eco-thriller. The New Earth is an interesting book and shows that Tsakraklides has talent when it comes to narrating descriptive passages which carry the reader into the near future with spark … Continue reading Book Review for A New Earth – Literary Licence Podcast
George Tsakraklides 