“When I was fourteen, before the Big Water, when TVs still worked and the melting of polar ice was generating reports of record storms from Florida to Main, and the flooding along the Eastern Seaboard made Hurricane Sandy look like the female rain of a light summer shower, Coyote came to me.” p.88 Rebecca Roanhorse’s award-winning Trail of Lightning - an indigenous climate-fantasy novel - does just that.Ĭover Photo for Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse So, since September is Amerindian Heritage Month here in Guyana, I wanted to examine a book by an Indigenous person which centres climate change and climate disasters. Indigenous peoples from around the world have been on the frontlines of climate and environmental activism, from the Sioux at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests to our very own wardens and trackers working in Iwokrama, to indigenous activists in Brazil doing their best to preserve the Amazon forests. This review of current climate literature is a sobering warning for our future if we do nothing to mitigate this ongoing disaster by holding the culpable corporations responsible for the ways they have polluted the globe. In early August, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) released an updated report on scientists’ current understanding of the state of global warming and its implications for our present and future. Originally published on Septemin the Stabroek News
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