That period of ‘Climate Opportunity’ and ecological longing lasted no more than thirty years. The long-delayed Third Sino-American War broke out as the inevitable overspill of the Pacific chaos. Though ‘contained’ by improved AI to conventional exchanges, many famous cities were turned to ashes. Worldwide disease, famine, drought, unprecedented mass migrations – no one had time for poetry or any other cultural endeavour. Survival was the only dream, which many did not fulfil. Between then and now, our numbers fell from nine to four billion,
I was born the year population rolled over to four billion- spring 1974
