{"id":1506492,"date":"2024-02-19T02:48:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T02:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmatilda.com\/?p=134400"},"modified":"2024-02-19T02:48:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T02:48:48","slug":"who-will-survive-to-write-the-obituary-for-gaia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/19\/who-will-survive-to-write-the-obituary-for-gaia\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Will Survive To Write The Obituary For Gaia?"},"content":{"rendered":"
David Shearman \u2013 an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Adelaide University and the co-author of many books relating to climate change<\/em> – has obviously had a life well lived. But what future, he wonders, awaits those yet to come?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n As I talk to a friend, a picture on the television screen flashes past my eyes and engulfs my mind. It\u2019s the war in Ukraine, mothers and children escaping from bombs in concrete shelters. They hold each other in terror.<\/p>\n Instantly a locked chapter in my life springs open and I am forced to confront its contents. In a squat concrete air raid shelter a mother sits with her youngster, both in distress. Mum\u2019s body is taut and shaking as I clutch her. We both whimper, incapable of shouts or screams. It is damp and dark, a German bomb thumps and shakes us. Mum moans. Was that our house? I weep in case it was.<\/p>\n