How Octavia Butler’s 1993 book ‘Parable of the Sower’ predicted our climate reality

Grist
By Syris ValentineJul 31, 2024, 4:15 am169 pts
On July 20, 2024, Lauren Olamina turned 15. Or, at least, she did in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. The 1993 dystopian classic recounts the life and times of a Black girl who shares the pain of others. Lauren lives with this burden in a version of the present that greed, poverty, violence, and…

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