The Day the Earth Shook

THE DAY THE EARTH SHOOKA story of climate chaos survivalThis is a story of two men, both fighting climate change in their own way. Jack Halliday is a disillusioned journalist who drops out to his own private paradise, determined to lower his carbon footprint and live a self-sustainable life.The other, his long lost son, is a student activist who organises radical demonstrations against fossil fuels, power generators, chemical companies and large supermarkets. He eventually is labelled...
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THE DAY THE EARTH SHOOKA story of climate chaos survivalThis is a story of two men, both fighting climate change in their own way. Jack Halliday is a disillusioned journalist who drops out to his own private paradise, determined to lower his carbon footprint and live a self-sustainable life.The other, his long lost son, is a student activist who organises radical demonstrations against fossil fuels, power generators, chemical companies and large supermarkets. He eventually is labelled a terrorist and finds himself and his aboriginal girlfriend on the run from government forces and the police. The two men are thrown together after a cataclysm, caused by global warming, which isolates a rural region in Australia from the rest of the country and a devastated world. This novel falls into the "speculative fiction" genre. There are no zombies, walking dead or super-natural forces from outer space in this story. Also, there are no gun- toting, righteous citizens stockpiling enough arms and ammunition, in order to eliminate all their neighbours when the time comes. The story examines the "what if" scenario that would face a region that was suddenly totally isolated, without fuel, medicines, imports or exports.The story examines the strategies necessary for the survival of the region when faced with violence from criminal groups attempting to profit from the chaos, and from external anti-democratic forces.Woven through this drama is a realistic examination of the actions and traditional skills necessary to make the region self-sufficient and sustainable, creating a form of a future Utopia.How the region re-organises itself politically, socially and financially in the face of a sudden emergency provides the background to a human story on the lives and loves of the two main characters.This book will appeal to everybody who is concerned about the future of the planet.