Recently I watched an excellent film called “Sunshine,” in which a group of astronauts and physicists attempt to deliver a bomb the size of Manhattan into the centre of our dying Sun, reigniting it and saving humanity from a frosty extinction.

Such extravagant science fiction seemed like exactly that: fiction. But, apparently, “geo-engineering” - gargantuan mega-solutions to an obscenely large (and growing) problem - is a developing idea that could be the saviour of our carbon-soaked planet. Here’s an intersting article on the subject.

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You will soon be 82. You have shrunk six centimetres and you weigh just 45 kilos and you are still beautiful, gracious and desirable. It is now 58 years that we have lived together and I love you more than ever. I carry in myself a devouring emptiness within the hollow of my chest, which can only be filled by the warmth of your body against mine.

That André Gorz’s beautiful suicide letter should be published for the world to read is wonderful: it’s a stunning display of romance and poetry that makes me well up with love as if I was a part of this lost couple myself. Hopefully an English translation will appear online soon. I think it would be a little too much irony for me to handle if the last, passionate declaration of a man so set against capitalism should become an international bestseller.

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