I finished reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy last week – an amazing novel for the ‘globally warmed generation’ – very dark and bleak tale of a man and his young son walking though a world destroyed by humans (I presumed a nasty combination of resource depletion + climatic change resulting in a global nuclear war scenario). The book was spellbindingly well written in very poetic prose but now I am left with terrible images and even more fear about the future of our species doing everything it can to ensure we destroy the environment which supports us.

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