Dense Discovery, Issue 68 :
In almost every regard this year has been wonderful for me. I have very little to feel anxious about – if there wasn’t this unabating sense of despair about the natural world. 2019 has been a disastrous year for our planet: fires, floods, droughts, heatwaves, air pollution – in almost every category we’ve seen records not just broken but smashed. As I’m typing this, catastrophic bushfires here in Australia are gobbling up flora and fauna of an area larger than the entire country of Belgium. (Or more than 3.