Aysén, Chile, is one of the most remote and undisturbed areas in the world. In 2011, the Chilean government approved the HydroAysén project – five dams and hydroelectric plants on the Baker and Pascua Rivers. The dams would irreversibly alter the ecosystem, flooding ranching land and ancestral h…
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William Atkins on the proposed nuclear power station in Suffolk.
‘At every protest, when it was time to yell at the cops, I remembered my father and felt a turbulent emotion.’
Memoir by Alejandro Zambra on his father and his son.
‘The poor hated the poor, natives hated outsiders, settled migrants hated new incomers, the North hated the South, non-Londoners hated London.’
