The Field

Malware in the policy

We presume that the future of our climate, how we feed and water ourselves and the homes we live in are dependent on many things – environmental, economic, social and geopolitical. But fundamentally, it’s all about how we work the fields.

Farming indices used to be pastoral symphonies of facts,, I now imagine a department within GCHQ full of tweeded Cirencester graduates crunching data before stumbling across malware that unveils a conspiracy, under the guise of climate change mitigation, to remove the nation’s ability to feed and house itself.

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