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Missy Higgins urges us all – read Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything”

Missy Higgins: how an obsession with apocalyptic climate fiction changed my life
The singer reveals what Emily St John Mandel, James Bradley and Naomi Klein taught her about facing the future, Guardian, Missy Higgins, 22 Nov 16, 

“……….One day, Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything entered my periphery and something twigged. I realised all the post-apocalyptic cli-fi books had led me to this moment. Enough of the fiction. Enough of the hinting. If the world was going to end, I wanted to read the facts. Hit me in the face with them, fuck it, let’s do this.

Well, This Changes Everything did just that. If you do nothing else, just read the introduction to this most terrifying of apocalyptic non-fiction books. To learn that the very thing that drives our culture – profit and growth – is the very thing that is going to kill us was more terrifying than any flu pandemic story I’d read thus far.

That at the root of our problem is possibly who we are as a species seemed more hopeless and paralysing than any zombie apocalypse. Then, when Klein spoke about the very real prospect of our children having to battle serious environmental collapse in their lifetime, I just fell apart.

The creature inside me was thrashing about. “What have I done?” There my son was, glowing in all his angelic innocence, playing with the product of this sick, disposable dream. I wanted to cry. I wanted to collapse down to my knees, hold him and tell him I was sorry. That I didn’t know what the future held and I was scared. So scared. But instead, I watched him in all his wonder, in his blissful little bubble and I stayed there. If only for a sweet, sweet moment, I stayed there and I forgot…..https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/nov/22/missy-higgins-on-how-an-obsession-with-apocalyptic-climate-fiction-changed-her-life

November 23, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News