A lost land mass, decaying wind farms – Ben Smith's environmental dystopia is very real

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Named after a land bridge that once connected Britain to Europe, Doggerland sees humans trapped on a wind farm in the North Sea

It’s more than 8,000 years since the North Sea swept over Doggerland, the land bridge that connected Britain to the continent until the end of the last ice age. But in this age of climate change and Brexit, the setting for Ben Smith’s dystopian debut could hardly be more timely; just this week, scientists set off on a voyage to map what remains of the lost land mass, with the hopes of finding evidence of stone age settlements.

 

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