The 27th century: beleaguered elites decide to melt the Greenland icecap. Why? " to open up a new continent, for colonisation by the unruly masses. How? " by harvesting the primordial heat of the Earth from Iceland (TM)s volcanoes. Nature fights back, and it all goes horribly wrong... In the early 1920s confirmed city-dweller Alfred D blin " he was 15 before he saw his first cherry tree " became puzzled by a nagging sense of Nature: I experienced Nature as a secret. Physics as the surface, begging for explanations. Textbooks... knew nothing of the secret. Every day I experienced Nature as the World Being, meaning: weight, colour, light, dark, its countless materials, as a cornucopia of processes that quietly mingle and criss-cross. Readers accustomed to following a story via Plot and Character may at first be disoriented by this...
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