Do We Have Your Attention
by Lonnie Ray Atkinson
“There are books you want to write and books you need to write. This is one I felt obliged to write.”
During the so-called “War on Terror,” the infamous Ticking Time Bomb Thought Experiment was not only heralded by Islamophobes and later elevated by the hit television show 24, but kidnapping and “enhanced interrogation techniques” were brazenly employed as an element of United States foreign policy and Dick Cheney’s One Percent Doctrine.
Do We Have Your Attention opens by satirically asking, “Knowing the danger posed by rising, human-induced greenhouse gas emissions is exponentially greater, in no way hypothetical, and 100 percent imminent, wouldn’t it be far more appropriate for activists in the War on Climate Change to engage with such a “Thought Experiment”?
What follows is an exploration into our relationship with the concept of violence as it relates to Climate Change. How we imagine violence. Our attitudes toward violence. Our fear of violence. Our proximity to violence. And, most importantly, the discussions concerning Climate violence, self-defense, and survival that we allow (and don’t allow) ourselves to have.
Author
Lonnie Ray Atkinson:
A writer born in East Nashville (back when that shit meant something), Lonnie Ray Atkinson has learned one thing about the work. Assholes strive to be clever; writers strive to be authentic.
In addition to Do We Have Your Attention, he is the author of many other books, including A Good Kid and His Ghosts and Tough Guys, Bad Dudes, And Other Men My Father Knew.
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