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Over coming weeks we’ll have a series of mini interviews (“minterviews” if you will) with some of the awesome writers in our forthcoming Ecopunk! (order it at http:\/\/bookshop.ticonderogapublications.com\/product\/ecopunk\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n Next up is Jane Rawson. <\/strong>Jane writes novels, novellas, stories and non-fiction, mostly about the environment. Her latest novel is From the Wreck<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1. Tell us a little about your Ecopunk! story, and the inspiration behind it. <\/b><\/p>\n “The right side of history” is set in a future Australia, where the world has decided to concentrate human habitat to leave a bit more space for other species. Humans can choose between moving to a super-high-density, well-designed urban area, or having their mind transferred into the body of a native species. This story is about a long-married couple who come to realise they have very different ideas about how best to help the planet. I was inspired to write it by a recent WWF report showing how the expansion of human habitat has killed off half of all wild animals in the world (80% of the Earth’s landmass is now human habitat to a greater or lesser extent). That led me to the information that if you weighed all the vertebrate land animals (including us), only 3% of that total weight is wild animals. Wild animals are almost gone, and in his book Half Earth<\/em>, EO Wilson suggests that the only way to remedy this is to dedicate half of the earth’s landmass to wild animal habitat.<\/p>\n 2. What science fictional technology do you wish we had now?<\/b><\/p>\n I wish we had microwaves that would heat soup evenly, and mobile\/VOIP phones where you could hear clearly what the person on the other end is saying at all times. But I know that’s crazy talk.<\/p>\n 3. With all these scary climate events happening at the moment, it’s sometimes hard to see some light. What gives you the most hope for humanity and the world?<\/b><\/p>\n Honestly, I’m not brimming over with hope. But of course whatever happens, life in some form will continue on. Octopuses are doing well. There’s a bright future for algae. Evolution will continue and new lifeforms will take over the planet. It just might take a while.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Ecopunk! – speculative tales of radical futures<\/strong> contains 19 optimistic tales, selected by two award-winning editors, showing how humanity can survive and flourish, despite the looming uncertainty from climate change. The incredible line-up includes some of Australia’s best science fiction writers. Order it at http:\/\/bookshop.ticonderogapublications.com\/product\/ecopunk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over coming weeks we’ll have a series of mini interviews (“minterviews” if you will) with some of the awesome writers in our forthcoming Ecopunk! (order it at http:\/\/bookshop.ticonderogapublications.com\/product\/ecopunk\/) Next up is Jane Rawson. Jane writes novels, novellas, stories and non-fiction, mostly about the environment. Her latest novel is From the Wreck. 1. Tell us a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[167,675,667,684,124],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecopunk","tag-cat-sparks","tag-climate-change","tag-ecopunk","tag-jane-rawson","tag-liz-grzyb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}