Tim Winton's sobering, grimly-compelling new book, Juice, is a reminder that knowledge is power — if we can do something with it. Eco-anxiety can only fester if we feel we are unable to effect change.
Tim Winton 's Juice is eco-anxiety on steroids. It's also a reminder that knowledge is power — so long as we use it Tim Winton 's Juice is eco-anxiety on steroids. It's also a reminder that knowledge is power — so long as we use itWith his new book Juice , Tim Winton intends to grab us all by lapels and force us to reckon with what's happening to the planet.It has long been stated by philosophers that knowledge is power: scientia potential est".
This is where Tim Winton's electrifying, sobering, grimly compelling new book Juice comes in. In writing it, he says he intends to grab us all by lapels and force us to reckon with what's happening to the planet. What changes our narrator is discovering that this is not always the way the world was; once it was lush, green, fertile and cool. And what enrages and astounds him is realising that generations before him knew this would happen, and continued to poison the earth. That some profited handsomely from this. That the world he lived in was not an accident, or inevitable evolution, but a consequence of deliberate acts and deliberate decisions made with full awareness of their consequences.
The acclaimed author imagines what life will be like for our descendants if we do nothing about climate change in his latest novel. This is not a story without hope, though. In 2019, Winton wrote a piece for the Marine Conservation Society website where he lamented the loss of reefs, the ongoing approvals of coal mines, but added:
I clearly remember Winton leading the fight to save Ningaloo Reef in WA, one which resulted in thousands of people protesting in the streets, and ended with its listing on the World Heritage Site in 2011 .
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