Dislocation - Butler, Tim

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Résumé :
CLIMATE DISASTERS.CIVIL WARS.MASS MIGRATIONS. India is in chaos. Storms destroy coastal cities, searing droughts cripple agriculture. The country is deteriorating, and millions are desperate to escape. Smugglers repurpose junked cargo ships as refugee vessels and hundreds of thousands of people wash up on Australian shores, straining already tense political relations. Jacqueline Laffite, Prime Minister of Australia, is pressured from both sides to solve the crisis, yet with India escorting the freighters of refugees with warships, it seems nothing will be able to stop the flow. Glen Robertson is a vaunted naval commander. On the front line, he becomes a pawn in Laffite's war and sacrifices everything for his country while wondering if it will be enough to achieve a solution. Dislocation explores the harsh realities of a post-climate change world and delves into the heart-wrenching moral choices humanity may have to make as a result....

Biographie:
Tim is a novelist, singer-songwriter, pugilist, entrepreneur and keen motorcyclist. After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti he cleared rubble by hand and later set up Osier Carbon, a reforestation charity. Since, he has roughnecked in the Queensland CSG fields and completed a masters degree focusing on climate/energy politics from UNSW, writing articles on energy and climate geopolitics in his spare time. He now works at an engineering consultancy in London. On the side he gigs, hits the gym and the boxing ring, and runs a med-tech start-up....

Sommaire:
MILLIONS ARE COMING. AUSTRALIA STANDS ALONE. India is collapsing. Environmental disasters, political unrest and economic breakdown have pushed hundreds of millions towards desperation. As the crisis deepens, vast fleets of refugee ships begin crossing the Indian Ocean towards Australia. At first, the arrivals are manageable. Then the numbers explode. The Indian Navy begins escorting the refugee convoys, and what started as a humanitarian emergency becomes an international crisis. Prime Minister Jacqueline Laffite faces an impossible choice: accept the influx and risk Australia's soul, or push back and risk war with one of the world's most powerful countries. On the front line, Commander Glen Robertson is ordered to stop the flow. As Australia edges towards war, he discovers that victory may demand sacrifices far beyond anything he imagined. Dislocation is a gripping geopolitical thriller of mass migration, national sovereignty and survival in a world pushed beyond its limits....