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“Words didn’t come. I couldn’t formulate a thought. I was too startled. These three figures lying in the sand in front of me weren’t surfers at all. They weren’t even people. From their facial features and upper torsos, they looked kind of like women, but all three of them had silver-colored skin. They were bald, with strange ridges marking their skulls. None of them seemed to have ears, only holes in the sides of their heads. No nose was visible, not even a bone or nostrils filled that space between their eyes and mouths. Although their mouths seemed to be moving, they were actually breathing through what looked like gills in their necks. And if that wasn’t weird enough, instead of legs, their upper torsos stretched out into long, scale-covered, silver fishtails. If I had to say what these things stranded in front of me, splattered with oil, appeared to be, I’d say mermaids. And no, they didn’t look like they’d start singing songs or granting me wishes. They looked a little bit scary—but fragile too. Most of all, they looked like they were going to die, and no handsome prince was there to kiss them and keep them from turning into sea foam.”

FantasyEnvironmentYoung Adult FantasyMermaidsOil SpillClimate FictionEcofictionEnvirontmentalism
Book:Cry of the Sea
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“We want to wake up and feel that we're useful, that we're leaving the world a better place for our children and their children. I hate feeling that I'm making everything worse because I'm locked in a system I can't change, that's destroying the world I love. I want to feel that I can do what I'm good at and be valued for it. We all do. Human creativity is absolutely f-ing amazing. There are people all round this country - the whole world - with ideas that could make things better if we could just agree that we all want to be safe, to be respected, to be loved, and then work out how to get from where we are to where we want to be.”

FictionDreamsEcofiction
Book:Any Human Power
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