Not everything dies if the world burns. But we do. So what now?
Climate change would stop if we all just disappeared. Global warming would stop too, if we all just agreed to cancel the advances and the technologies of the last hundred years or so. If we all went back to a time before the word “global” was connected to the words “supply chain”, we’d survive. But all of that’s impossible, right?
I can remember soaking home-grown lettuces in salted water to get the bugs out. Buying fish off the quay, and vegetables in season. Nothing wrapped in plastic. Lucozade in glass bottles. Kilner jars! Bakelite telephones with tangly platted cords! I can bore for England on the virtues of the past, and maybe it’ll come to that.
But the past is another country. No flights there. Planet of the Maize Weevils is the first in a planned series of compilations of short stories, essays and Op-Ed pieces available on for free on Kindle.
