Ask a random person on the street to name his or her five favorite scientists, chances are you would hear
a litany of familiar names — perhaps Marie Curie, Albert Einstein or Louis Pasteur — all of them instrumental in casting the world in which we live.
Kingsnorth, who curiously shares his
name with the site
of the site
of recent Climate Camp protests, recites a
familiar litany — we are going to hell in a fossil - fuel - and - capitalism - powered handcart, and the human race is just to stupid to notice or care, and it will be a good thing when billions
of us are dead, because those who remain will have learned a lesson.