Detail from The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Pierre-Jaques Volaire, 1777
Living Dangerously on the Slopes of a Volcano
Reflections on the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea, what the geologists are saying, what Nietzsche meant by 'living dangerously on the slopes of a volcano', the abode of Pele, my pit-fired ceramic volcano vessels, the astrology of the eruption, and why the problem of climate change is like the big lava flow we cannot escape from.