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Letter: Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth...

Published 15 April 2015

From Greta Sykes

If I am to believe New Scientist, we are about to enter a glorious age of leisure with robots doing all the work, electric cars driving us to beauty spots and other planets being available via space travel, if we get bored on Earth.

Such is the gist of many of your recent articles on technical wizardry – and it leaves me wondering whether you have already left this planet.

Where we humans live, we face catastrophic changes through military extravagances, monopolisation of land and property and environmental damage taking us to the brink, turning Earth from friend to enemy. Have a care and think of Mother Earth!
London, UK

Issue no. 3017 published 18 April 2015

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