Fire Part III: The creation of the Sun on Earth
The quest to develop thermonuclear fusion is the apogee of humanity’s ongoing struggle to control and utilise fire and energy
“the ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.”
Rachel Carson, the author of The Modern Environment Movement,
quoted from her 1962 classic Silent Spring
In charting the relationship between mankind and fire, we have seen …
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