In his chapter from the New Zealand edition of Fleeing Vesuvius, Laurence Boomert gives an account of a lifetime built on accepting and rejecting Vesuvius and the progressive actions taken to beat the odds. “I keep believing that life wants us to succeed and somehow we have the capacity to transcend our seeming impasse […] the foreground will seem like the end of the world but I see, through the smoke and ruins of that which must fall, a wiser, more humble, more determined humanity with 10,000 years of social and technological success stories to draw on, setting a new course for the future.”
Featured image: H-bomb. Author: Sergey Lebedev. Source: http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=201466
