Author Of "Solar" - Ian MacEwan - "Americans Are Profoundly Bored W. Climate Change"

McEwan blamed American apathy for the negative reviews afforded to Solar, his satire about global warming. The New York Times critic dismissed Solar as one of McEwan’s “lesser efforts” while the Washington Post called it “flaccid” and advised readers to “let Solar pass and wait for his next book to eclipse it”.

McEwan, who recently returned from a North American book tour, said many Americans had a “passionate dislike” for the novel. Speaking at the Telegraph Ways With Words festival in Dartington, Devon, the author admitted to feeling shocked by the negative reaction.

“I was knocked off my pedestal. It was amazing,” he said. “It was odd because I did a book tour in the States then crossed the border to Canada and got the best press I had ever had for a novel. It was so entirely different.

“Some of were moaning that the novel had no plot and was formless, someone else was moaning that there was way too much plot. I think, though, that I caught America in a mood of profound boredom about climate change. They just didn’t want to hear about it any more, they were sick to the teeth. I think there was a strong element of that.” He added, with a laugh: “Or maybe it was no good, there was always that possibility.”

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7895747/Ian-McEwan-says-Americans-are-profoundly-bored-by-climate-change.html

It will be our undoing, eventually (if not already)

Nothing's more exciting than being part of a mob protesting the unaffordability of food while riot police wade in with tasers and batons!

The movement has done a wonderful job of speaking in mild, sensible tones with academic language, and scientific jargon that only appeals to nerds. We are not alarmist enough. We do not draw the connections to everyday life well enough. It's pathetic.

Yeah right. Please ratchet up the alarmist rhetoric. The more the doomers rant, the more people wake up to the ridiculousness of the global warming scam. Then maybe we can collectively put the last nail in the coffin of the AGW/CO2 hoax and move on to things that will actually make a positive difference to the environment.

> Then maybe we can collectively put the last nail in the coffin of
> the AGW/CO2 hoax and move on to things that will actually make a
> positive difference to the environment.

Said as if people like you would have a clue how to make a "positive
difference to the environment" (other than by dying) ... hmmm ... speaking
of nails in coffins ...
:evilgrin:

did you forget the sarcasm emoticon?

..you're joking, right?

You can't even be bothered to tell us why climate change is a scam, you just sit there and croak that we're all doomers and AGW is a hoax.

Boring person, you could at least try to be less boring. :(

Humans are a pathetic species now.

it appears as if a whole section of the population enjoys being so.

Of all the reasons to get ourselves off fossil fuels, the global warming argument is the weakest by a considerable margin. We do not need to look at half baked computer models that tell us what our planet might look like in 100 years to find a reason to stop using fossil fuels. Look at what is happening to the fisheries and beaches of the Gulf of Mexico. Look at what is happening to the mountains and streams of West Virginia. Look at the trillions of dollars wasted and thousands of lives lost in the Middle East. Look at the lungs of people living near coal fired power plants and in smog ridden cities. The shit that is going on right now is undeniable and easy to grasp, so why bother with the global warming argument? It's a political loser and a complete waste of time.

Unless of course you're trying to sell more books... :eyes:

that I agree with you. :(