When David called me up and invited me to coffee, I felt a rush of gratitude, worried, as every laid off journalist must be, that the world was quickly forgetting me.

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Hours upon hours spent in that fort, forgetting about everything in the outside world, just taking in the sounds, letting the aura of Led Zeppelin wash over us.

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What people are forgetting is that if you look at the energy balance of the world, 80 percent of the world's energy is supplied by fossil fuels.

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With all this, it is easy to see why most paint Perth as bright, fun and a '"laid-back place to visit", forgetting how it is one of the most isolated cities in the world.

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