The Fried Planet

Fried, frazzled, finished.

Powering your iPhone: The Hambach open-pit coal mine in Germany

By “planet” I don’t mean “the earth” or “nature”. I mean Planet Human, as in Planet Hollywood. The psychological, cultural, intellectual, ecological and social sphere we inhabit as a species or, put more loosely, a category of being. Even in the richer neighbourhoods and countries of this planet, our mental and emotional well-being, our basic psychic security is constantly under assault from all…