
Great Books: Charles Dickens’ Hard Times
Charles Dickens’ only dystopia has been rather unheralded, but it is a tale for our fossil-fuel powered age.
Charles Dickens’ only dystopia has been rather unheralded, but it is a tale for our fossil-fuel powered age.
American historian Henry Adams’ optimistic creed of progress and energy innovation foundered on technological forces unleashed in the 20th century.
The struggle for sustainable energy will soon put China, the US and Europe on a geopolitical collision course. But moving away from fossil fuels is a Herculean task, and a greener politics will not transcend tragedy.
The Covid-19 crisis has accentuated all the geopolitical fault lines of the past decade.
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