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Sir, Ed Crooks review of works of fiction dealing with climate change is revealing of one supreme irony: the writers of fiction may get global warming right long before governments and international organisations do (When the wind blows, Life & Arts, June 26-27).
While Mr Crooks may be right that the threat of global warming has replaced nuclear war as the dominant threat du jour in the angst Zeitgeist, it has not disappeared.
Our global environment is, therefore, even more perilous than before. Just imagine increasing resource wars over arable land, water and oil pushing for the use of weapons of mass destruction of greater and greater lethalness.
Hopefully writers of fiction will get to that complex scenario long before governments do.Dennis J.D. Sandole,
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution,George Mason University,Arlington, VA, US
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