Writing fewer blog posts, more remiss paying attention to human-induced climate change.

Sure, I worry about my grown kids’ future, my beloved grandchildren, and all of Earth’s children.

What can I do? I ask myself. I write. I’ll tell you about a superb 800 page-plus novel that sheds light on rising sea-level disasters, increased world-wide poverty and starvation, and a world of issues hindering life on this still beautiful blue sphere.

THE DELUGE by Stephen Markley is well worth reading. Too bad it’s so long, scaring many intrepid book lovers off (including my partner).

I’ll admit, I don’t read every word: the prerogative of older readers. We only have so much time to read!

It’s a page-turner that terrifies me: with its crackling scientific minutiae; its sci-fi premonitions; its government ineptitude and political wackos.

Projecting into the next thirty years or so, the book’s possibilities ring true. Perhaps some solutions lie within, too, but that’s not for me to say.

Kate Morris, THE DELUGE’S major protagonist/activist with the wild hair, enthralls me (and her longtime partner). Activists who risk everything always do, but that’s not my approach either.

One book review called THE DELUGE a classic. Read “How will climate change destroy us? ‘The Deluge’ imagines the scenarios” (Washington Post review, January 6, 2023)

Is there any hope? I’m intrigued by big carbon and other taxes, by policy geniuses who will stop at nothing, about a possible reordering of political movements.

Will we get there? I don’t know.

What I like best about THE DELUGE is it makes me think. A lot.