Walking on Lava Selected Works for Uncivilized Times edited by Charlotte Du Cann, Dougald Hine, Nick Hunt and Paul Kingsnorth

Where this world  is going on and how can we develop a different attitude about our environment complicated by climate change and a lot of unusual, scaring weather's answer from a crazy climate?
How can we give  peace again to Earth and men?

In my land old people said that when Earth is stressed and there are quakes or floods or uncertainties caused by extreme climate conditions, people are stressed and peaceless as well. A good environment means for man peace because the environment is every man's land.

This book published last Aug 4th Walking on Lava  Selected Works for Uncivilized Times edited by Charlotte Du Cann, Dougald Hine, Nick Hunt and Paul Kingsnorth the sum of the first ten books published by the cultural association Dark Mountain where we meet, in very erudite words, without hiding anything the risks for the future, the story of our humanity and a project for saving the Planet re-thinking our history with creativity.

The Dark Mountain Project was founded in 2009 wanted by a group of ecologists and creative people who thought that what they were hearing about nature and ecology was not sufficient for changing the world in better, but that, at the same time the world needed and needs extra-attention because what we are seeing in a daily base is scaring. I am writing when two days ago we experienced in Italy the quake of Ischia where two people lost their lives and a lot of houses and a church collapsed with great simplicity as if they would have been sand. Italy: a year ago we lived the quake of Amatrice with wagons of dead people. Who knows: maybe if the climate change wouldn't have been so strongly influential we wouldn't have lived all these disasters, or in less measure.

What these group of thinkers of the Dark Mountain Project wants to do is to try to reunite all the creative mind for telling to the world, their world as it was and proposing some solutions.
These tales, poems are amazing. I prefer the tales of the past, where nature was tranquil, where agriculture was clean and rich for every man.
In all these tales there are big reflections about the state of the world, and where this Old World is going on and what we can do for changing the situation before it becomes too irreversible, if it's not arrived yet the point of no return. Returning to the past can be a great idea :-)



I thank NetGalley and Chelsea Green Publishing for the eBook.



Anna Maria Polidori