Lmao, go recycle something.

Year Of The Flood is one of my favourite books, I reread it every summer now. Toby and her little rituals are very comforting.

YotF was the first one I read of the trilogy too, but it doesn’t make for quite as good a username with all those christian connotations.

I’ve read all the books in the correct order several times since then, but I far prefer reading O&C after YotF, it makes Maddaddam feel so much more cathartic and deserved and it really improves the pacing. The slow build up in YotF, leading to all the action and exposition in O&C and then winding down in Maddaddam and the story coming back to Toby, flows so much better as a three book narrative. Also piecing everything together with this order is much more interesting too imo.

Ok, go fix the world and be the hero everybody needs.

Despite your behaviour here, I do wish you well in spreading this message of more labour and ignoring climate science and resource depletion, amongst your likely already overworked and under paid friends and neighbours.

Nothing says “We CAN fix this!” like naive optimism, but hey, who knows, maybe you’ll get really, really lucky before the top soil and fresh water reserves run out and find a wizard capable of rewriting the laws of physics and reversing all those tipping points we’ve passed. Or a time traveller who can go throw a spanner 8nto the works of the industrial.revolution maybe?

Either way, you’ve got 25y at best there before the soil and water run out, and that’s if, if we don’t have a blue ocean event before then.

You should start now if you haven’t already, that wizard might be pretty hard to find and time travellers are notorious for it.

Revolution against capitalism isn’t something I think is possible, they literally have all the money and power in the world and that is not a fight we can win.

Plus they aren’t spending any of their trillions to fix climate change (not that they even could at this point), so what’s the point in fighting for, or even dreaming of, a better future, when the rest of this century is going to involve the deaths of multiple billions of people to drought, famine, technological collapse, bad weather and run away heating.

So instead of spouting hollow platitudes about beheading billiomaires and needing revolutions, I’ve spent my energy elsewhere, mainly by studying climate science and enjoying what little health I have left.

Good on you if you are. Are you?

Luigi already did one, so what are you waiting for?

Talking big about revolutions and beheading people when you clearly have no intention of actually doing either, is honestly kinda pathetic.