The Sheep Look Up

Written in the early 1970s, before the environmental movement turned around some of the worst pollution in America. Dystopia, details the connections between those who accept and excuse the problems and those who rebel and revolt.

I read a review which described this as a massive car crash seen from multiple windscreens, and that's accurate - and maybe required to make the point. A dystopia from one point of view gives the reader some hope, and there's very little hope here.

"The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage!"

Though Earth Day and the environmental movement did clean up a lot, the economy is still the most important thing. Instead of rivers on fire or chemical leaks in one city or beach, we have a global problem that needs just as much solving. The message here is just as relevant - and just as depressing - as it was in the early 1970s.

"STOP, YOU'RE KILLING ME!"