The Situation is Hopeless, Just Hopeless
A Pessimist’s Review of The Uninhabitable Earth by Mallory Wournos / January 29th, 2021 Soon people will be coming here to make documentaries about how we’ve been forgotten, about how nothing has been done. Some call them ‘mountains of doom.’ Dotting the landscape of once-green Wales to this day are the stygian slag heaps resulting from centuries-old collieries, mammoth piles of debris that tower above the mining towns. They are cheerless sights, which one writer likened to “spiritless cathedrals of the industrial age.” As was proven in horror at Aberfan on October 21, 1966, these...