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A good book to check out, if you need comp title, may be Agent Pete's fabulous client, Michelle Paver, book. It's set in the Arctic as opposed to Antarctica, but it's with a look: Dark Matter: A Richard and Judy bookclub choice from the author of WAKENHYRST eBook : Paver, Michelle: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store
Welcome, Barbara! See you on the blurb thread!
Submit a pic of something from your life and 50 words on a Christmas theme to participate. See the Christmas party thread. Knees up sort of means party, and that's what's happening this Sat., to my understanding. Bring your own comestibles. We can be the new kids together.
There's a great book by Tobias Buckell entitled, "Arctic Rising" that considers such a future world. I often think about what happens when we become climate refugees trying to get into Canada? Surely they will be much more welcoming than we have been toward our neighbors to the south. I'm originally from Michigan BTW. Where do you live now?
Michigan, I think of wolves. There is a book proposing that Europeans are all refugees trying to get into Africa in the future dystopia. Young sci fi author I cant think of name now. I don't think humans can act any better than they have ever done in past migrations unfortunately. In Switzerland My husband and I tried to make a proposal that refugees get offered education and apprenticeships so that they are valuable assets in the future for either rebuilding their own countries or resettling somewhere that needs skilled people for development. We got told it would only make more come.. Our answer was-OK then you educate them and find new placements for those. You're afraid of having a permanent dependent underclass like in France. So change the dynamic. There will be a net benefit. Your education system gets better and better, your values get spread around the world and you have allies. Thing is Switzerland despite it's "700" years of democracy was only ever a confederacy of pirates with more in common with Jean Lafitte than any other form of government. I'll look up your recommendation. Have you read Kim Stanley Robinson The Ministry of the Future? Living in Wexford, ie. now. Plan on leaving this place feet-first. But making plans to be buried on the prairie in the same graveyard I visited with my grandmother on Memorial Day.
I have read Kim Stanley Robinson. I find he has Soooo much exposition in his books. His Capitol Series was a little better in that regard, though. I spent a week at the Dilley Detention Center in Texas in 2018 trying to help mothers seeking asylum prepare for their hearings. All I could think was how lucky we would be to have these strong women in our country. Sounds like you understand such things... and here in the US we are all immigrants.
Brava. Indeed we are. Except of course for our First Nations. Ministry of the Future was a hard read as a novel, but I did learn a lot. I don't share his enthusiasm that the Swiss will save us, but they certainly are well ahead of the US in dealing with climate change. The impetus being Putin controls most of the winter heating oil for Europe and threatened to cut off Germany and Poland more than a decade ago. The US is contractually obliged to supply Nato allies and Japan with oil. My husband works with venture capitalists on finance for alternative energy projects.He's been involved with wind mostly and now Australia's surge towards non-lithium batteries. He's beginning to agree with me that the future is either the Industrial Feudalism warned against by economists like Galbraith or democracies survive by producing food and energy locally There can be no in between due to the power corporations have to keep the status quo. I don't think we are far off the Thuggee type terrorism in Ministry of the Future. How can we expect millions of people to die by starvation or heat without even an attempt to change their fate. Sorry, I did dive right in there didn't I? You came along just when our household was in fierce debate about this.I apologise for throwing you in the middle of it. Welcome. I look forward to your contributions as a writer.
