One of Helen Simpson's new stories, that appears in her climate-change collection In-Flight Entertainment, imagines a diarist in 2040 looking back with wistful memories of life in the age of fossil fuels. The things that are missing from 2040 (according to this review) include:
condoms, iTunes, Google, hot water, open fridges full of tiger prawns and fillet steak.
Ancient Peruvian civilisation grew mighty by harvesting guano
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The Chincha Kingdom was transporting seabird excrement from islands to
valleys as early as the 13th century, and this powerful fertiliser may have
been key...
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