A children’s book called The Weathermonger, focuses on how society has rejected machines and has returned to a feudal system of agriculture and witch hunting, a world where machines are evil and women are uneducated, and a council is creating a world of fear. After last week, it sounds less and less like fiction. As Elif Sarah says,” when societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened”. We can only live in hope as people rise up and say ‘no’. We mustn’t lose our nerve.
