โ Scribed by Stephen Carleton
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Meet Augusta Macquarie: Her Excellency, patron of the arts, formidable matriarch, environmental vandal.Inside her triple-glazed compound, Augusta shields herself from the catastrophic elements, bathing in the classics and campaigning for the reinstatement of global reliance on fossil fuels. Outside, the world lurches from one environmental cataclysm to the next. Meanwhile, her sister, Olympia, thinks the best way to save endangered species is to eat them. Their niece, Basra, is intent on making a difference โ but how? Can you save the world one blog at a time?
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