Monthly Archives: April 2020

Our planet, us and Covid-19

Our pursuit of higher and higher rates of growth and profit, gluttony and profligacy and our endless armed conflicts are wreaking havoc on Mother Earth. The scourge of plastic, pollution of air, river and sea, deforestation, overfishing, relentless mining and … Continue reading

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Covid-(20)19 and Stupid-(20)20

What Covid-19 has put in very sharp focus is the utter powerlessness of man before the forces of nature as well as the futility of talking science and reason to obscurantists, religious bigots and conspiracy theorists.

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