biofuels and the food chain
One of my all time favourite books is The Day of The Triffids by John Wyndham . It is a book which has had a major influence on my life, ever since I was about eight years old and first heard it being read on the radio.In brief, most of the world's population are blinded by some strange lights in the sky, and as a result the Triffids - strange, ambulant, people eating plants (not purple people eaters... that was something else that caused childhood nightmares) are easily able to kill their prey. Society as we know it breaks down and the hero is forced to make some tough choices about survival. look, there is a movie! I had no idea. What would you do if you were one of the few people with sight in the world? Work hard to help the others? Recognise the futility of trying to save and feed everyone else and save yourself? One of the reasons that I am thinking again of the Day of The Triffids is that I went to the launch of the LEAF project recently. The Leaf Project is bringing toget...