![]() ![]() I worry that I’m too weak and passive, that I don’t make a difference because I’m too scared." ![]() I worry that I am eating when other people are starving. Climate change, the environment, war hunger terrorism. Amber is perfect fodder for a cult – with no friends at school and feeling no one understands her. Luckily the Amethyst Children are waiting in the wings to save the Earth. The cult in question is The Community, which believes the world as we know it is ending. (The illustration is by Sarah Coleman who did the paperback covers of Holly Black’s Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale and Ironside: A Modern Faerie Tale) I glanced at the blurb, but it didn’t really register that the story was about a cult. I picked up this up thinking it was some girly fantasy, with its twining flowery vines in metallic purple. In the coming decades we face endless war, disease and starvation – a terrible and unavoidable apocalypse." Without oil, modern agriculture will fail. In just fifty years the age of oil will be over and the industrial machine will cease. The Gulf Stream is dying and climate change will spread deserts over the face of the Earth. ![]()
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