Bad news comes fast: the last decade has been the hottest on record. Venezuela is the first modern country to see its glaciers disappear. One in five migratory species faces extinction. A band of technoscience enthusiasts – politicians, scientists and tech billionaires like Musk, Bezos, Gates and Thiel – are rushing to solutions. There are promises to resurrect the Tasmanian tiger, to remake the world at the atomic level. Ideas once the stuff of science fiction, such as brightening clouds and shooting sulphur into the stratosphere, are on the environmental agenda. New forms of nuclear power are hyped as ‘ clean’ despite uranium having a half-life of thousands of years. Instead of developing ways to protect nature, we are investing in ways to remake it. In line with the motives of power and profit, hubris has come to define the fight against climate change. But only a form of environmentalism that puts human justice, equity and posterity at its centre can create the conditions to truly avert our disastrous course. Insightful and urgent, Brave New Wild calls for a radical rethink to bring about a richer and more humane future.

About the Author

Richard King is an author and critic based in Fremantle. His work appears widely, including in The Australian, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Monthly, Griffith Review, Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, Overland and Australian Book Review, and in The Best Australian Poems and The Best Australian Science Writing. His most recent book, Here Be Monsters: Is Technology Reducing Our Humanity? (2023), was shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Award for Nonfiction in the NSW Premier’ s Literary Awards. King writes regularly for Arena, focusing on the relationship between culture and technology.

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