In the 90s I wrote a short story about an environmental activist on the run.
In the story, as ecological collapse begins to take hold and becomes undeniable, society goes mad and mobs, driven into a frenzy by fear, start hunting down and murdering the very people who tried to warn them.
It was supposed to be a caricature about terrified people "shooting the messenger".
Now though, seeing the Just Stop Oil protesters get lengthy jail sentences, it feels uncomfortably prescient.
#ClimateChange
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