Reconsidering Watership Down Going Into COP28

Two years ago, I wrote an article called <a href="https://medium.com/climate-conscious/waiting-for-bigwig-46b031012984" rel="noopener">Waiting for Bigwig</a>, 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. <a href="https://medium.com/the-new-climate/reconsidering-watership-down-going-into-cop28-36de50a631ee">Learn More</a>