Climate-change alarmism: you couldn’t make it up | Tim Black | spiked

But the group of literary luminaries, from Margaret Atwood to David Mitchell, who have just contributed to a doom-laden collection of short stories called I’m With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet… what’s their excuse for siding with clawing-and-biting nature over humanity? Well, their main excuse seems to be their conviction that because human beings lead such ecologically damaging lives, we are inevitably heading towards envirogeddon. And as litterateurs, it is apparently their duty to scare the still largely unworried public around to consumption-light asceticism through the power of dystopian short stories. As the book’s publisher, Verso, describes it: ‘World-class novelists envision the terrors of impending climate change.’

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