A website exploring the novel's themes of climate change and artificial intelligence
This week’s edition of The Economist (September 21st 2019) has climate change as its theme. The striking graphic on the cover, reproduced in this post, shows in coloured bars the average world temperature every year from 1850 to today. There are no less than 23 articles in this edition covering the varied, […] Read More
This is a sad story about an ancient glacier that didn’t survive. The Ok glacier in Iceland has lost its glacier status. This monument commemorates the event with a message to the future. A 2018 documentary called Not Ok details the events of the glacier’s demise, and prompted the idea for the creation of a memorial. […] Read More
Lily Miyashiro lives much as any twenty-nine-year-old in 2050’s America. Her job is busy, resettling climate refugees from the coastal cities. Then she gets a call. She has family she never knew about. And they want something from her she doesn’t want to give. Lily is one of the young; reliant on […] Read More
George Orwell once wrote “If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?” Today we witness not Big Brother, but many people in positions of authority denying, deflecting or delaying climate change action. If that makes your blood boil, it’s because […] Read More