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Planet in Flames

“Only when things fall apart do you realize it can happen to you. So until the climate was actually killing them, people had a tendency to deny it could happen.”

― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

We are remorselessly torching the only home we've got – and it's not only happening now, but accelerating breathtakingly quickly. This talk from amazing and morally commanding activists Claudia and Orla is a gut-punch to watch, but just try being one of 3 billion climate refugees, within our lifetime.

It's also the most important thing I've seen in memory. (And it rousingly concludes with hope.) So – back to business as usual?

Fuchs is the author of the novels The Manuscript and Pandora's Sisters, both published worldwide by Macmillan in hardback, paperback and all e-book formats (and in translation); the D-Boys series of high-tech, high-concept, spec-ops military adventure novels – D-Boys, Counter-Assault, and Close Quarters Battle (coming in 2016); and is co-author, with Glynn James, of the bestselling Arisen series of special-operations military ZA novels. The second nicest thing anyone has ever said about his work was: "Fuchs seems to operate on the narrative principle of 'when in doubt put in a firefight'." (Kirkus Reviews, more here.)

Fuchs was born in New York; schooled in Virginia (UVa); and later emigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lived through the dot-com boom. Subsequently he decamped for an extended period of tramping before finally rocking up in London, where he now makes his home. He does a lot of travel blogging, most recently of some very long walks around the British Isles. He's been writing and developing for the web since 1994 and shows no particularly hopeful signs of stopping.

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