TETom Eaton

1. Article · Jul 14, 2026 · Tom Eaton

   TOM EATON | Our grasp of the emergency diminishes like all those critters going extinct (opens the original)

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   I can imagine that there are many things that keep environmentalists and climate scientists awake at night and I’m genuinely grateful that I don’t know what they know. But of all those torments, I suspect the one that would do my head in completely is something called Shifting Baseline Syndrome. It sounds mathsy and technical but it’s really just a way of saying that human beings have relatively short lives and that, apart from the odd Silicon Valley sociopath trying to upload his consciousness

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2. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · Tom Eaton

   TOM EATON | New demerit system: the taxi industry is a sore point (opens the original)

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   It’s tough to write good jokes about the new traffic system, soon to be rolled out in some South African cities, whereby drivers will have points deducted from their licences. After all, the proposed system is itself a perfect joke, which means any attempt to improve on it will be futile. There’s also the fact that South Africa’s roads are no laughing matter. It’s well documented that we have the most dangerous roads in the world, roads on which you can be forced to a stop by aggressive brutes w

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