tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881040037554026819.post7376152757987671210..comments2023-06-07T18:17:38.198+10:00Comments on Verdant Hopes: The Real Australian of the YearAlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12169088333204893335noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881040037554026819.post-47400192007390146982011-02-09T18:03:46.884+11:002011-02-09T18:03:46.884+11:00Alene
I am touched and honoured by your essay. It...Alene<br /><br />I am touched and honoured by your essay. It is all pretty right as to facts about me except for one or two discrepancies as to my SIEV X book - I do not think I alleged the grey boat had to be Australian, my stated hunch was that it was probably Indonesian.<br /><br />Crunch Time was an undervalued book when it came out. It only sold 2000 of its initial print run of 3000. The remaining copies are on Scribe Publishing's warehouse backlist as far as I know. It is likely to be my last book published with Scribe Publishing, who stood by me loyally on my first book on SIEV X, to their great credit. <br /><br />I am now asking comparable public questions about why SIEV 221 was not safely detected and intercepted at sea like its 220 predecessors, that were so detected and safely intercepted. There is a curious but predictable lack of publicd interest in asking this question. <br /><br />I put at least as much work into Crunch Time as into the SIEV X book, but it did not attract anything like the same degree of public interest and support. Climate change advocscy is a crowded field, Most established people are too busy pushing their owm organisations' barrows to be interested in what a newbie might have to contribute. In all kinds of ways, Crunch Time was patronised and sidelined. Not a pleasant experience for a writer. Which makes your essay all the more appreciated by me. <br /><br />Maybe after the major natural disasters this year in every state of Australia except SA and Tasmania a few people might go back to my book. My final Dystopian chapter has interesting resonances with the Queensland floods and Yasi. Under pressure of natural disasters on this scale, Australians respond ib many ways as predicted in this final chapter. The SES, police and army come to the fore as social leaders, and our selfish competitive society is replaced by a far more cooperative society. Under the exiatential stress on Australia to be caused by more than 2-3 degress of global warmimg, I believe Australia will move permsnently to that kind of better society. <br /><br />Regards<br /><br />Tony Kevintony kevinnoreply@blogger.com