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‘A futurology of fools’
That's how a supposedly politics-free vision of Scotland's future comes across, says CALUM BARNES
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Scotland 2070
by Ian Godden, Hillary Sillitoe and Dorothy Godden
(College Publications, £13.99)
SCOTLAND 2070 boldly proclaims on its cover that it is “an ambitious vision for Scotland’s future without the politics.”
Written by consultants to oil and engineering firms, the non-political caveat reveals itself to be a fatuous one as its authors bring a very particular class perspective to their vision. To them, climate apocalypse is not so much a crisis but an opportunity for capital accumulation.
This is not to suggest that none of the book’s proposals are of no value. Godden et al are correct to argue that Scotland’s landscape is severely underutilised. To reforest much of the land, with requisite ecological sensitivity, would not only create jobs but provide natural carbon capture to combat fossil fuel emissions.
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