The Tipping Point

Two hundred thousand years ago, in a land none of us would recognise, ancient modern humans emerged and began to roam the planet Earth, leaving behind hauntingly beautiful cave paintings tens of thousands of years old.  Paintings we still do not understand.  Sadly they shed no clear light on the lives of our oldest ancestors, we do not know how they really lived, what they truly believed, or if they were even trying to tell us something with their paintings - deemed by most experts to be nothing more than abstract art.  Perhaps one day we will find a key to decipher their paintings, but until then, their distant lives continue to remain a shadowy mystery to us, their descendants.

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Food?

Back during the Reagan administration of the 1980's, a significant amount of press was invested in articles discussing the real possibility of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.  In 1984, when arms talks failed, the Doomsday Clock was moved to 3 minutes to midnight.  At the time, as a teenager, it was deeply troubling to hear people talk seriously of the costs and practicalities of building their own nuclear fallout shelters.  Then I learned that even if one survived the 'nuclear holocaust' as it was called, the nuclear winter that would follow it could go on for years. 

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