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ictures painted with
words helped listeners understand some of the complexities of climate change
and why it is what it is.
Co-author of Climate Code Red, Phillip Sutton, “painted”
that picture when he spoke at “Post-Paris: Sketching a new approach” at The
Carlton Connect Initiative on Wednesday, September 23.
Phillip, standing before a table of books, all of which he
had obviously read, went back to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to
begin his illustrative story.
Phillip is an active member of the Victorian Climate Action Network and recently circulated fellow members of VCAN alerting them to a new
book.
He said: “Tim Snyder, an historian, has written what I think
is a very important book: "Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning". In the concluding chapter, where he focuses
on the future, Tim explores stress dynamics that could lead to new
genocides. He draws a conclusion that
might surprise some of his readers - that climate change might be one of the
most serious.
“Tim makes a very powerful argument, developed in the second
half of his book, that the ability to rescue threatened people when genocides
are underway is terrifyingly limited - so effective prevention is crucial,” he
wrote.
A “long read” on the Guardian says, in commenting on the book
and discussing the order both those on the left and right fear it says: “In an
era of climate change, the rightwing version of anarchy, economic
libertarianism, may pose the more pertinent danger.”
Read the Guardian’s
long-read story - “Hitler’s world may not be so far away.”
