Tim Winton: his new novel and our climate emergency
Kuno caught up with Tim in Hobart recently during his nation-wide book tour. We started by asking him what he was most proud of with Juice:
There are just so many young people and quite a lot of older people too, who are just really fed up with the governments of the day doing the bidding of fossil fuel lobbyists.
Every time there's the possibility of some serious climate action, they get headed off in the pass and they end up just doing what they're told by the corporations.
People have just had a gutful.
So that's been interesting - that people are talking, looking for ways to bear each other up, forming alliances and getting active. That has been terrific.
I feel determined about the future. I'm not naturally an optimistic person and I don't put much currency on the emotion of optimism. But hope is a discipline. Hope is something that you take on, not something that you receive or just passively feel.
I think we can meet the challenge of the climate emergency. I think people are smart and passionate and creative and they want to do the right thing.
We just have to break through this kind of situation of capture that we find ourselves in. And it just means getting active. I'm writing a nightmare vision of what probably lies ahead if we don't pull our finger out and take action.
It's tough to be in that world, because you're not there just for the day, you're not there for the week, you're there for years and years and years.
You go back to the desk into this really tough, grim existence that I'm imagining our descendants having to continue. You need some juice to keep at that for a while, but I feel good to have survived it and I feel good to have pulled something off.
I'm not quite sure what it is because it's too early to tell, but from the kinds of reactions that I'm getting from readers and people who are meeting on the tour, it feels like it's here to call.
*you can find more information on Juice, including an extract and reviews here .
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Kuno
Kuno caught up with Tim in Hobart recently during his nation-wide book tour. We started by asking him what he was most proud of with Juice:
There are just so many young people and quite a lot of older people too, who are just really fed up with the governments of the day doing the bidding of fossil fuel lobbyists.
Every time there's the possibility of some serious climate action, they get headed off in the pass and they end up just doing what they're told by the corporations.
People have just had a gutful.
So that's been interesting - that people are talking, looking for ways to bear each other up, forming alliances and getting active. That has been terrific.
I feel determined about the future. I'm not naturally an optimistic person and I don't put much currency on the emotion of optimism. But hope is a discipline. Hope is something that you take on, not something that you receive or just passively feel.
I think we can meet the challenge of the climate emergency. I think people are smart and passionate and creative and they want to do the right thing.
We just have to break through this kind of situation of capture that we find ourselves in. And it just means getting active. I'm writing a nightmare vision of what probably lies ahead if we don't pull our finger out and take action.
It's tough to be in that world, because you're not there just for the day, you're not there for the week, you're there for years and years and years.
You go back to the desk into this really tough, grim existence that I'm imagining our descendants having to continue. You need some juice to keep at that for a while, but I feel good to have survived it and I feel good to have pulled something off.
I'm not quite sure what it is because it's too early to tell, but from the kinds of reactions that I'm getting from readers and people who are meeting on the tour, it feels like it's here to call.
*you can find more information on Juice, including an extract and reviews here .
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