SUICIDE EARTH (#9) J.K. Ullrich -- Blue Karma | w. Van Carter
(A highly prescient fiction account that helps all of us see the bleak future we are creating.)\n\nBlue Karma (Mar 2019, Spaekona Press) by J.K. Ullrich. Came out digitally in 2015.\xa0 In the near dystopian future, water is the coin of the realm.\xa0 People steal it.\xa0 People die for it.\xa0 Empires depend on it.\xa0 Water. \xa0It covers almost three quarters of the planet, comprises more than half the human body, and has become the most coveted resource on Earth.\xa0 And because of its sudden scarcity, humans around the world have been displaced.\n\nJ.K. Ullrich investigates the future as a technology analyst by day and a science fiction writer by night. She published her award-winning debut novel Blue Karma in 2015, followed by the Syzygy novella series. \u201cIn Blue Karma I envisioned a near future where this plight was so common, people had developed a vocabulary\xa0shortcut\xa0for the issue. Thus I coined the term \u201cengee\u201d, a portmanteau of \u201cenvironmental refugee\u201d. I never imagined applying the term in a real-life context so soon after dreaming it up, but that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening.\u201d\n\n_________________________\n\nVan Carter is a retired broadcast journalist. "I was never a war correspondent, yet we're now in a war and I feel like I'm reporting from the front lines." He published the green website theOnlyGreenlist from 2008-2023.\xa0 For more of the 12 episodes, search Suicide Earth at BlogTalk Radio.\n\nMusic Credit: David Nevue: While the Trees Sleep\n\nKudos to Sunbury Press for hosting this interview series on its BookSpeak Network