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• Shlomo Dowen

  Wow! I have just finished my first reading of Tom Hellberg’s ‘Climate Countdown’ and I am inspired to write a book review to encourage others to take the journey.
  Full disclosure: Tom is a friend, and a much-loved and respected colleague of mine in the UK anti-incineration movement.
  Tom’s book is an important one, and the account Tom provides, the ‘story’ Tom’s book tells, is an important piece of a puzzle. It is vital that we piece this puzzle, and it is clear that – as the book cover’s illustration suggests – time is running out to complete this work.
  Origin stories are important. They can help us understand the motivation of fictional superheroes, and they can help us understand where we are as a society and how we got here.
  We all owe a debt of gratitude to Tom for sharing the fruits of his life experience and painstaking research – which obviously included trawling through countless blog posts and social media posts to find some gems that reflect the spirit of the Climate Camp that is the book’s focus.
  I am grateful to Tom for grappling with the anger and doubts that must have surrounded his efforts, and to have somehow managed to provide such a vital, comprehensive, and inspiring account of events.
  As Tom writes (on page 265), the Climate campers’ “occupation of physical space in which to host an experimental shared community continues to inspire”. It is fair to say that I found Tom’s book an inspiring use of emotional and intellectual ‘space’ in which to understand and hopefully learn from the experiences of this ‘shared community’.
  Circumstances – physical, political, social – continue to change, so I urge you to read Climate Countdown right now to help you appreciate how we got here and where we may be heading next…

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