GRANTA 83

O número de Outono, intitulado "This Overheating World", revela-me um olhar desconhecido, Edward Burtynsky que vale a pena aprofundar.

Na contra-capa, um texto / apresentação para perturbar as nossas consciências demasiado ocupadas com o lucro, os impostos, as criancinhas, os juízes, os apresentadores, os ministros e as notas, os jornalistas, os comentadores, as...:

The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its animals lived. This is not a wild-eyed prediction, a man on the street with a placard ('THE END IS NIGH'). Respectable science knows it and says it. Who is responsible? We are—our habits. Can we prevent it? Too late. Can we moderate it, slow it, eventually reverse it? Yes—if we try. This outdoor issue of Granta reports from our present and future world.