"Tides" (alternative title "The Colony") is a sci-fi movie from 2021 about a post-apocalyptic world at the moment the first human communities are about to re-settle again. The only territory suitable is a coastal strip that is covered by tides twice a day. The area is...
In my search for books that could be considered "climate literature" or "climate change narratives" I recently came across a volume by Swiss writer Max Frisch, entitled "Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän" (english edition titled "Man in the Holocene"). Frisch wrote the...
Painting of the Goldauer Bergsturz by at the time sixteen year old Swiss artist David Alois Schmid (1791 - 1861). It depicts the massive landslide that completely destroyed the town Goldau in the Swiss mountains.
“Only man knows natural disasters, so far as he survives them. Nature does not know disasters.” "Katastrophen kennt allein der Mensch, sofern er sie überlebt; die Natur kennt keine Katastrophen.“ from: Max Frisch: Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän. (1979) The German...