Two years ago, I wrote an article called Waiting for Bigwig, using the archetypal rabbits from Richard Adams’ 1972 novel Watership Down to explain the power dynamics of the climate crisis. “Watership is an ecological novel,” I said, “for it is ultimately about the ruin humans bring when they collide with a purely natural environment.”
I wrote this in late 2021, right before COP26 (the annual UN Climate Change Conference or Conference of Parties). I felt, and still do, that we have as many Fivers (people crying harm! foul!) as we need.