Tuesday, January 09, 2007

The nightmare of climate change


“A dire set of predictions of the consequences of global warming in Europe is contained in a report for the European Commission. It forecasts that by 2071 climate change will cause droughts and floods that will kill 90,000 people a year while damage from rising sea levels will cost tens of billions of euros.”, Andrew Bounds, Financial Times, January 5th.
Dreams are never easy and deformation of reality follows from the very way in which they evolve. Predicting those future trajectories while asleep could break down the construction of present dreams.