#book #environment
The Underland by Robert MacFaland was not the kind of book I thought. I had developed an interest in Geology the past several years. The book as advertised at least in my mind to be about what’s below the ground. Perfect I thought. Well, it was in a way. The first chapter started out interesting enough about cave pictographs by early humans with some descriptions of the stone the pictographs were drawn on. But over the the next few chapters the focus shifted to the environmental damage we were subjecting the Earth to. The word antrhopocene appeared more and more frequently as the pages wore on.
Finally the story culminated in a visit to the just completed Finish nuclear waste storage facility constructed 430 meters underground in bedrock named “Onkalo” meaning cave or pit in Finish.
From the depths of a Greenland glacier to the Paris underground to Norwegian caves this book is part travel, part nature, and part environmental. A great read!
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