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A review by trashkatchewan
Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures by Andrew Dana Hudson
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
1.5
This was a bust for me. Just felt like a 200-page transcript of the world's worst conversation with a poorly-socialized neoliberal who has never once thought about an Indigenous worldview other than to suppose that "they'll just go along with our decisions once we educate them!". No wait, it felt like if AOC's Green New Deal ad was 4 hours long and was delivered by the world's most exciting narrators: non-world leader attendees of COP.
I thought the last future scene would be somewhat inspirational, but really it was a yawnfest of discussion on what issues would come up once we fixed climate change, bracketed by perfectly scripted tableaus of the most utopian community-based disaster relief and unimaginably naïve depictions of quaint, friendly negotiations with rich people to give their money to the cause willingly instead of waiting for it to be forcibly taken by a wealth tax. The description of the actions needed to bring all this about was definitely what got me though - explicitly laying out that the movement to save the planet was mostly nonviolent direct action in a plea to defang any meaningful movement we've collected at this point, urging insistently, "no please, don't fight the rich and powerful, make your case and they'll join us peacefully!"
Anyways, those are my takeaways. Sorry to this author if they ever get on this website, as I can see that this will be one of 3 reviews available. I liked the title "Thor's Year" if that's any consolation.
I thought the last future scene would be somewhat inspirational, but really it was a yawnfest of discussion on what issues would come up once we fixed climate change, bracketed by perfectly scripted tableaus of the most utopian community-based disaster relief and unimaginably naïve depictions of quaint, friendly negotiations with rich people to give their money to the cause willingly instead of waiting for it to be forcibly taken by a wealth tax. The description of the actions needed to bring all this about was definitely what got me though - explicitly laying out that the movement to save the planet was mostly nonviolent direct action in a plea to defang any meaningful movement we've collected at this point, urging insistently, "no please, don't fight the rich and powerful, make your case and they'll join us peacefully!"
Anyways, those are my takeaways. Sorry to this author if they ever get on this website, as I can see that this will be one of 3 reviews available. I liked the title "Thor's Year" if that's any consolation.