Psycho Too by Will Self

Author:Will Self [Self, Will]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
ISBN: 9781408852545
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

The Eden Reject

January 2043

Another New Year – another massive challenge. Power is, as ever, the problem. Since we first turned the former Mediterranean biome into a peat bog, we have had enough fuel to keep our own, larger biome at a habitable temperature: but now it looks as if the bog is ceasing to be self-sustaining. I idly raised the prospect at this morning’s powwow of making a foray into the outside world: there must still be some abandoned vehicles on the old A30 which have intact petrol tanks.

However, I am now so old that the young of the community will not listen to me. They cannot remember the first years we spent here at the Project, or how – before the conditions outside utterly deteriorated – Martin Bulmer and I succeeded in siphoning many litres of petrol from the cars and buses which had brought us here. Without that fuel we never would’ve survived. The young Edenites care nothing for this – to them Bulmer and I are living fossils. I try to tell them that before the Gulf Stream switched off, and Britain was plunged into a new Holocene, the realm outside the Project was like the interior of the big biome: grassy hillsides studded with deciduous trees, neat fields of wheat, vegetable plots and orchards.

This they frankly disbelieve. They claim that the Project was created by a Supreme Ecologist and that the evidence of his wisdom is all around in the form of inspirational signs. Bulmer and I have tried to explain to them that these hokey quotes from Lao Tzu, Gandhi and Xenophon were placed in the biomes by very human designers, and that they should be taken as divine tablets is just one of the furious ironies of this paradoxical new era. Almost as furious as the fate of the Project itself, which was originally built as an exhibition of the earth’s biodiversity, and has ended up as the final redoubt of human life in Britain – perhaps even the world.

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