The acclaimed author’s 500-page novel is something of a departure – a cli-fi thriller set 200 years from now.
After 40 years and 27 books, Tim Winton says he’s now written “the inevitable book”. “When I started writing, I was literally a youth,” he says. “Then I was a young parent. Now I have six grandchildren. You do get a sense of perspective over that time, watching and anticipating the culture.” And now, “we find ourselves in an unavoidable moment, on a razor’s edge”.
He resisted writing this book for a long time, but he was also building up to it. “We’re at a widely acknowledged inflection point in the decisions we’re making – and perhaps more to the point, not making. We’re in the last decade of real agency in terms of mitigating the very worst effects of climate chaos.” After spending 30 years in his other life as an environmental activist, Winton felt that once he had the knowledge, it was a moral evasion not to use it.
Winton calls this violent insurgency “the fruit of humiliation”. We know, he says, that crimes have been committed against nature and humanity, some in our name and some with our money.“In all likelihood there will be no Nuremberg trials for climate chaos. But there’s so much data available to anyone who seeks redress in the future.
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