Stuffthatcounts

I wrote an article in New Matilda a while back taking Simon Holmes à Court (SHAC) to task for using maps to mislead people. Maps can easily make big jobs and vast areas look tiny. Put a line on a map between Sydney and Melbourne and it beggars belief why we don’t have a bullet train between the two. Similarly, innocuous looking squares on maps, representing vast renewable energy farms, give no indication of the ecological, mining and social costs behind them. But there are ot