## 2024-08-08 12:18:48
IN ROBINSON’S NEW BOOK (3/6) – Overcome by conflicting emotions, ecoanxious parents seek to tie their children’s awareness of nature without expressing their anxiety.
At the beginning of the book, the unnamed father talks with his 13-year-old daughter. Lucie is troubled because at school they learn that “warming will be very difficult to stop, that it will exist for centuries and it is just here in France.” He imagines the dark days when people would kill themselves over a little diesel. “What is the end of this world story and why does no one do anything?” he asked. Patiently, argument by argument, the father – who knows a lot about it since he presented the ideas of scientists, engineers and collapsologists Pablo Servigne and Gauthier Chapelle – details the value of the current event. Yes, it’s true, he admits, glaciers are melting, animals are disappearing, and most people are going about their lives without seeming to care. So, he told her, it’s normal “to be afraid, sad, hopeless, disgusted or angry. If the land is sick and the…
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