A website exploring the novel's themes of climate change and artificial intelligence
Some new words made it to the dictionary this year. Climate emergency among them…. Back well before 1984, Mr Orwell put the power of language directly into our heads. And we know they matter. Well, this year we see some words that I think will become more than everyday usage. I think […] Read More
The first post on this website was titled A Letter to the Future concerning the loss of a glacier in Iceland. This post looks at the report prepared in November 1982 by Exxon’s Environmental Affairs Program Manager for company management. That’s nearly forty years ago. It contains many prescient facts and forecasts. […] Read More
The Greenland Ice Sheet covers more than 80% of Greenland’s land area and is more than three kilometres deep at its thickest point. If it were to fully melt, the sea level would rise by over 7 meters (23 feet). To fully melt will take a long time. We are talking centuries. […] Read More
William Nordhaus was awarded the “Nobel Prize” for economics in 2018 for his work on climate change economics. This graph is the latest iteration of the climate damage function that Nordhaus and his colleagues developed to estimate the impact of climate change on economic activity. This seemingly benign chart could decide the […] Read More
The following article is short and simple and cuts through the obfuscations of every day noise. We think that it speaks for itself and so we present it below in its entirety, without comment. AT A SUMMIT in Paris in 2015, 188 countries pledged to curb their greenhouse-gas emissions. Collectively, these pledges, […] Read More
In 2019, the OK, Boomer meme really picked up traction. It even has a Wikipedia entry. Most recently we saw New Zealand MP Chloe Swarbrick dismiss an older member of parliament with the term after he interjected during her speech supporting a climate change bill. It went viral. See video below. But […] Read More
We are excited to announce that our novel, Court of the Grandchildren, will be published by Odyssey Books in 2020. Odyssey Books is committed to publishing engaging and beautifully written books. Books that stretch the imagination, challenge pre-existing attitudes and beliefs, or take readers to far-flung climes. Like the Odyssey name suggests, […] Read More
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