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Tag: Climate change
Review: The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh
A powerful retelling of the last 500 years of history – and where we go next.
Review: Australiana by Yumna Kassab
An all-too-human portrayal of the people who live on the land.
Review: Under A White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert
A gripping, frightening and weirdly hopeful look at the lengths we’ll have to go to to fix global problems.
Review: Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler
An eerily prescient vision of the climate-ruined near future.
Review: Flames Of Extinction by John Pickrell
A urgent stocktake of the Black Summer, which burned a fifth of Australia’s forests.
Review: The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
The Rain Heron is a fable about environmental exploitation.
Review: Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
A virtuosic collection of essays about the meanings we invest in nature and animals.
Review: A Couple Of Things Before The End by Sean O’Beirne
These stories are about traditional Aussie men, all at sea in their emotions.
Review: Living With The Anthropocene (edited by Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner and Jenny Newell)
The writers in this collection grapple with what it means to be “planetary” beings: how our individual actions can seem so small, but have global consequences.
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