Book Review: "Sealed" By Naomi Booth

“I’ve been watching him for any signs that he’s still upset. I know he was scared by what he saw in town, I saw it in his face. But as he tidied up the living-room, set out the camping chairs, opened another beer, there was no sign of any fear left. He started whistling and put some music on. It’s gone: the anxiety has passed through him quick as clouds across a blue, wind-blown sky.”

Can you imagine having zero voice in terms of your rights to your own body, your own environment, and your own reality? What if the government sent you off to displacement camps for speaking out?

Well, this seems to play off of the current state of affairs; as women we don't have to look far to imagine this new dystopian format.

While this plays like a far off novel in the time of Armageddon it's actually occurring all around the world.

The Australian language and slang may be offsetting to the locals in this one.
However, the overall social commentary by the author seemed to jive with the prose and flowed freely throughout the book.

For me, the toxic smoke, the ecological hazards, the raging forest fires, and the skin disease was just a part of the future which isn't really futuristic but reality.
The idea that you can run to a safer location like Australia when in fact Australia recently suffered these horrendous wildfires is not the future but reality.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/australia-wildfires-contribute-big-rise-013000908.html

As humans inhabiting the planet we must all do our part and stop passing the buck.

Hopefully, the more one educates the more answers and solutions may be sought and performed to change the course for our future children.

We cannot continue on this path of destruction as the new ones such as for Alice and Pete need our love, our safety, our protection.

What is our lasting legacy>Is it a dirty filthy planet?

I guess it's food for thought since nothing is being done to rectify the current state of affairs.

Global warming to climate change and everything in between with air pollutants to toxins in our water supply and beyond...we must find alternatives and solutions today.

I hope this might be used as a plea for more work to be done and more concern about the unborn and the future for our children.