Are there any readers who are willing to take a chance on a novel that has chosen not to be part of the Amazon hellscape?

Simple assertion - no evidence.

"But where growth slows — whether through demographic decline, policy mis-steps or explicit degrowth agendas — living standards will stagnate (including for the poorest), reducing public support for altruism and pushing us towards a zero-sum world with increased inter-group tensions and more hoarding of scarce resources."

"I wanted to make the point that the Convention on Refugees defines refugees as people who are oppressed because of politics or because of identity or economic hardship or political violence, but it doesn’t include climate change. And it really should. Climate change should be a reason you can declare asylum, because climate change also makes all of those problems way worse."

Excellent demonstration of solarpunk - address drought, heat, and energy problems locally and sustainably. Clever folks from Gujarat/India who first thought of it. And more power to AZ/CA in the US for deploying it.

"As of early 2026, sovereign wealth funds globally manage a record high of approximately $15 trillion in assets, up from less than $1 trillion in 2000. State-owned enterprises control even more: $54 trillion in assets, the equivalent of almost half of global GDP, which is up from about $13 trillion in 2000."

There is a new book making the rounds with the premise -

"While most climate advice demands self-denial—eat less, travel less, want less—this groundbreaking book offers a counterintuitive truth: you can make your life better while saving our species at the same time. The authors reveal how tweaking everyday decisions around food, travel, housing, and shopping can nudge us toward a tipping point of mass action—without tipping us into burnout.

You will discover that:

• Joy is a powerful climate strategy. When you enjoy the changes you're making, you're more likely to stick with them—and spread them.
• You don't have to go vegan or give up flying. Smart substitutions (chicken over beef, carry-on over checked bags) make a real dent in emissions with less personal friction.
• Small talk matters. Normalizing climate conversations with friends and family helps shift social norms and catalyzes cultural change.
• Give yourself permission to leave the lights on. Focus on higher-impact actions instead of smaller interventions."

Super curious what their message is for the poorest people unseen/unheard from Africa/Asia/etc. who are literally dying because of heat, flooding, starvation, thirst, storms, etc. Take it on the chin? Just so that the lovely people in North America and Europe can party on? Then at least throw open the borders so the climate change victims can join the party. How about that?

How does one think about this? The writers are most obviously not climate deniers. But I don't understand their recommendations either.

Genre - crime, climate, speculative, mystery, thriller, hopeful, solarpunk

Comparable novels

• Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower”
• Neal Stephenson’s “Termination Shock”
• Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry for the Future”
• Steven Markley’s “The Deluge”
• Jens Liljestrand’s “Even if Everything Ends”
• Amitav Ghosh’s “Gun Island”
• Emily St. John Mandel’s “Station Eleven”

Blurb

In the aftermath of a catastrophic heat wave, the city of Sequoia was created as a refuge for millions of survivors of the tragedy. Alia, a precocious police detective, is feverishly hunting for the killer responsible for the first-ever murder in Sequoia. Then, another happens. The only similarity between the two victims engulfs the city in violence. Sara, the killer, is willing to go to any lengths to avoid capture. As Alia chases Sara, she confronts the excruciating dilemma that pits her life against the future of Sequoia. Will she solve the two murders in time? Will the city not just survive but thrive?

Motivation

A fair bit of global warming is already baked in even if we manage to quickly bring down future GHG emissions. The effects of climate change are being felt in catastrophic ways in many places around the world. How we adapt to those impacts will be a major preoccupation for the rest of our lives and beyond. Adaptation would require efforts to help people survive in their existing homes and/or help people relocate to more habitable environments. In this novel, set in the near future, I explore a world in which a large number of people move away from dangerous places to a safer one. In an era of draconian restrictions on migration, this story attempts to explore several challenging questions - will the climate migrants be allowed to settle down in relatively safer places? How many will be allowed to do so? Who will be allowed? Under what conditions? How will the migrants cope with the massive transition? Will they take the good and bad aspects of their current lives to the new land? Or will they develop new ways of peaceful living? Will the rest of the world allow them to live in peace?

Genre - crime, climate, speculative, mystery, thriller, hopeful, solarpunk

Comparable novels

• Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower”
• Neal Stephenson’s “Termination Shock”
• Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry for the Future”
• Steven Markley’s “The Deluge”
• Jens Liljestrand’s “Even if Everything Ends”
• Amitav Ghosh’s “Gun Island”
• Emily St. John Mandel’s “Station Eleven”

Blurb

In the aftermath of a catastrophic heat wave, the city of Sequoia was created as a refuge for millions of survivors of the tragedy. Alia, a precocious police detective, is feverishly hunting for the killer responsible for the first-ever murder in Sequoia. Then, another happens. The only similarity between the two victims engulfs the city in violence. Sara, the killer, is willing to go to any lengths to avoid capture. As Alia chases Sara, she confronts the excruciating dilemma that pits her life against the future of Sequoia. Will she solve the two murders in time? Will the city not just survive but thrive?

Motivation

A fair bit of global warming is already baked in even if we manage to quickly bring down future GHG emissions. The effects of climate change are being felt in catastrophic ways in many places around the world. How we adapt to those impacts will be a major preoccupation for the rest of our lives and beyond. Adaptation would require efforts to help people survive in their existing homes and/or help people relocate to more habitable environments. In this novel, set in the near future, I explore a world in which a large number of people move away from dangerous places to a safer one. In an era of draconian restrictions on migration, this story attempts to explore several challenging questions - will the climate migrants be allowed to settle down in relatively safer places? How many will be allowed to do so? Who will be allowed? Under what conditions? How will the migrants cope with the massive transition? Will they take the good and bad aspects of their current lives to the new land? Or will they develop new ways of peaceful living? Will the rest of the world allow them to live in peace?

"This is the cognitive dissonance I want to name clearly, and kindly: the gap between what the financial and public policy elite are discussing in air-conditioned conference rooms, and what is actually being constructed in factories, fields, and rooftops across Asia and beyond. The discussion lags the reality by several years — and that gap has consequences for how capital flows, and at what cost, how policy is shaped, and how quickly the benefits of this transition reach the people who need them most."

Whilst canadian and interesting opinion piece none the less. We all know that Australians migrants arent actually skilled labour, but more just a device to pump gdp which is a pretend metric.