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What will it take to fix the climate crisis Green Stories prize winner Fairhaven A Novel of Climate Optimism follows the path of Grace Chan born in Penang Malaysia She has experienced the dire consequences of climate change personally and is taking action borne both of hope and desperation Her story explores the implications both at the global scale and and on a deeply personal level of our common dilemma and the possibilities that are open to us Unlike most cli fi novels which present apocalyptic scenarios for the future Fairhaven envisions in an engrossing readily accessible story for general readers how a range of practical climate adaptation and mitigation solutions could work when fully implemented Fairhaven opens in 2036 as Grace is days away from assuming office as the President of the newly formed Ocean Independent State Driving along the edge of a Penang dyke to clear her mind her truck crashes and she comes close to death as the tide rises As she reviews her life the reader comes to understand what has brought her and the world to this point how she will move forward and the surprising role that ordinary individuals can play Fairhaven A novel of climate optimismThe book is very well written based on plausible scenarios and thorough research Very insightful English This book came to me through various channels a recommendation from The Economist and the FT one of the authors reaching out on Linked In and a general view that the time has come for some climate optimistic fiction I quite liked the premise because it closely aligns with how I view climate change As far as I can see there are some fairly bad things coming down the track that I have very little agency over There is little I can do to stop them However I can change how I react to them how I respond to difficulties as they arise For me climate action is about mitigation than anything else. EBook fairhaven village I had three responses to the book the celebratory this is a world I want to build the fantastic the assumptions in the book were too far fetched and the horrific this is a world will actively work to avoid What I really liked about the book is that the good parts were based upon local initiatives to improve the lives of those affected in a local sphere In many ways I have actually seen a good part of this vision in action on the West Coast of Ireland which is dominated by small communities that have been largely overlooked by the metropolitan communities The development of the ocean environment around the oil platforms in the book really does resonate with the experience of life in contemporary Ireland I can see that vision and I know that it would work Not only is it feasible it is also desirable and sustainable as well That aspect of the book is to be celebrated. Fairhaven ltc When the narrative goes from the local to the global it starts to become too fantastical There are a number of plot devices that didn t work for me For example it is held that all of the territory in international waters outside of the various EEZs will become the Ocean Independent State That in itself is an interesting idea but who is going to enforce it Without being told about the process we asked to believe that both China and the US will make their navies available to the OIS to enforce OIS rulings against their own interests This beggars belief Equally and important storyline is the refreezing of the Arctic Why would Russia with so much to gain from an unfrozen High North agree to this Conveniently Russia is at war with itself and the civil war prevents Moscow from interfering with the refreezing activities We are asked to accept this at face value I was left thinking about the consequences of a nuclear armed militaristic society at war with itself In the book there are no adverse consequences I found that hard to believe If the book had a really weak spot it is the geopolitics of scaling up the local to the global It eventually gave us an answer that to my mind is wholly undesirable The books ends with the establishment of the OIS and with Grace Chan as the President of the newly formed state What happens next The newly formed state is then stuffed full of Grace s family and friends placed into key roles and offices of the newly formed state This is the degree of cronyism and nepotism which we associate with the worst aspects of the Global South and this book perpetuates it It s just one step away from a President for life cash for favours military dictatorship I can t see that not happening in the newly formed OIS This is the part of the book that I would be happy to resist To me it provides further confirmation of my conjecture that a democracy can t achieve Net Zero a practical working of the Arrovian Impossibility Theorem. Fairhaven ma On the whole this is a good book to read The way in which large issues are addressed locally is worth noting The scaling up of these local initiatives to c global level is a work in progress The blueprint here is best avoided and resisted However as a first start it does have some merit English As someone who works in this area at the international level and has also been involved in communications for many years I really enjoyed reading this book Like lots of other good sci fi it starts with very real current situations and projections as well as technologies and international bodies that exist but it imagines a world where these ideas and bodies meet their potential while the collective communities play a pivotal role and remain intact. Fairhaven health Is it realistic It could be and is most definitely a better and helpful hopeful narrative than many of our current predominantly doomsday dystopian individual YOLO reactions to the climate crisis Drawing inspiration from one of my favorite quotes from Margaret Mead which is also quoted in this book Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world indeed it s the only thing that ever has Thanks for finding me on LinkedIn Steve and I look forward to talking to you English Fairhaven a novel of climate optimism by Steve Willis and Jan LeeI will keep it short this book is a must read for everyone especially for those who seek ideas about how to make a change how to stop climate change I wish people in higher positions like government would read this and make engineers and scientists research the described projects and make it happen Of course I know it s science fiction but there s also truth to everything described Maybe it should become a book children read at school This book wasn t a pageturner for me I struggled with many words I didn t know my mother language is German It s also not action packed or exciting though it had a few pages of tension Still I highly recommend reading this book Sich a den Asphalt zu kleben um Autos am Fahren zu hindern bringt nur rger ndert aber nichts am Klimawandel Innovative Ideen hingegen k nnten das English