Issue 2022 November 12
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Urgently Needed: A Nuclear Power Solution
What a paradox. Australian governments commit to shutting down all coal and gas electricity plants and opposing nuclear power, while Greta Thunberg backs the German Green Party in keeping Germany’s country’s nuclear power stations operating. Recently, Robert Millner, head of New Hope Coal and long-time chairman of Washington H Soul Pattinson, warned of the dire consequences of politicians rushing “to turn off these…
Cinema Review – Where Reality and Unreality Meet: The Mind
My last piece explored simulated realities. In that piece, I considered the anxieties and struggles of a person realising their life was an illusion, and the commonness of this theme in yarn-spinning. However, now is the time to complicate that picture. Those tales – from Plato’s cave to The Matrix – tend to be, at least at one level, unambiguous. They present a…
