06 December 2006

London's sinking

Here we go ... check out the soundtrack to the era of climate change, playing now in a financial district near, uh, me. Here's a review. And unrelated, though from the same edition of the Independent, questions raised about the Green Belt. At the end it mentions that 'climate change will worsen if the countryside disappears under concrete.' That's a scientific reason against building on the ring of green that surrounds British cities. But here's where artists tend to be out in front of us workaday journalists. The 'idea' of a Green Belt orders urban society in this country to a profound degree. It creates a limit and a boundary to cities. You wouldn't put that in a news article, though, the editor would laugh (with some good reason). Thus: bring on the opera.

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