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[the_grynne]

• Robert Macfarlane: "The burning question" talks about the literature of climate change, and the role writers play in the debate. >> Guardian Unlimited Books
  
  Climate change still exists principally as what Ballard has called "invisible literature": that is, the data buried in "company reports, specialist journals, technical manuals, newsletters,

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[fatema]

My eyes just fell on John C. and I was just like WTF and had to go back and read all of that, LOL. Damn. Farscape ate my brain.

[the_grynne]

:) That made me laugh. No, this is a much less loveable John Crichton.

[fatema]

I've added you. :) Mostly because we share way too many interests. I do love your icon! *sigh* They were always such good friends, weren't they? Anyhoo, yes. Pretty icon.

[so_spiffed]

We have also arranged things so that no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster.

Huh. We just covered that in typography a week ago. "Knowledge monopolies" created by new technologies. And the fact that even when those new knowledge monopolies are taking power away from the people who control the old ones, they're still cheered on by those people.

Strange. Was also too lazy to read full article. :)