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Will they take the good and bad aspects of their current lives to the new land? Or will they develop new ways of peaceful living? Will the rest of the world allow them to live in peace?

/fin

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In this novel, set in the near future, I explore a world in which a large number of people move away from dangerous places to a safer one. In an era of draconian restrictions on migration, this story attempts to explore several challenging questions - will the climate migrants be allowed to settle down in relatively safer places? How many will be allowed to do so? Who will be allowed? Under what conditions? How will the migrants cope with the massive transition?

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Motivation

A fair bit of global warming is already baked in even if we manage to quickly bring down future GHG emissions. The effects of climate change are being felt in catastrophic ways in many places around the world. How we adapt to those impacts will be a major preoccupation for the rest of our lives and beyond. Adaptation would require efforts to help people survive in their existing homes and/or help people relocate to more habitable environments.

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Comparable novels -

Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower”
Neal Stephenson’s “Termination Shock”
Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry for the Future”
Steven Markley’s “The Deluge”
Jens Liljestrand’s “Even if Everything Ends”
Amitav Ghosh’s “Gun Island”
Emily St. John Mandel’s “Station Eleven”

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As Alia races against time to save the city, she discovers a deadly secret which turns her life upside down. Will she solve the two murders? Will the city survive?

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Alia, a precocious police detective, is feverishly hunting the killer responsible for the first-ever murder in the city of Sequoia located within the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia. The city was, specifically, created for millions of climate refugees in the aftermath of a catastrophic heat wave. Then the second murder happens. Sara, the killer, is willing to go to any lengths to avoid capture. The only similarity between the two victims threatens the very future of Sequoia.

A New Faith <genre: hopeful climate fiction>

Sequoia, a city of climate refugees, has to decide whether to thrive in a future built from scratch or to barely survive because it cannot let go of its past.

TinJar

West Africa is turning 15 national grids into a regional power system, making electricity cheaper, cleaner and more reliable across borders.

More than 4,000 km of high-voltage lines now connect the West African Power Pool, enabling utilities to trade electricity across borders, while upgrades have brought service to over three million people in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone and The Gambia.

https://www.worldbank.org/en/results/2026/05/11/connecting-west-africa-through-regional-power-integration-and-expanded-electricity-access

​Connecting West Africa through Regional Power Integration and Expanded Electricity Access​

The West Africa Regional Power Integration and Electricity Access Program is delivering more affordable, reliable, and sustainable electricity, helping create jobs, empowering women, and reducing climate impacts.

World Bank

https://braddelong.substack.com/p/draft-the-fermi-paradox-the-drake

Bravo @delong

"What we do not see, either in our own past or in the biosphere around us, is many independent runs at civilization in the strong sense: high‑bandwidth symbolic communication, cumulative technological culture strong enough to reshape an entire planet, large‑scale cooperation and hierarchy, and the institutional scaffolding that keeps that precarious construction from collapsing back into small‑band primate politics. That may be the real bottleneck."

DRAFT: The Fermi Paradox, The Drake Equation, & the Likely Future of Human "Civilization"

How long do civilizations last? The Drake Equation, Bel‑Air mansions for everyone, & the Great Filter; or, where is everybody when $160 million a year incomes are normal? (Behind the paywall, at...

DeLong's Grasping Reality: Economy in the 2000s & Before
More than a million people die from road injuries every year

Around 1.3 million people die from road injuries across the world every year. That includes the deaths of drivers, passengers, and pedestrians.

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