Colorado Climate Change Novel Offers Insights from Prehistory to the Modern World
With all the talk of climate change these days, it is important to remember humans have had to deal with climate changes in the past. In Journey of the Goddess by David Johnson, the prehistory of Colorado comes alive as the people of the plains deal with the climate change at the end of the last Ice Age.
Rush, CO, January 06, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Global warming is an increasingly pressing topic for people today. It seems almost weekly a new report surfaces detailing the changes our planet is going through, and regularly ads run on television asking people to fight global warming. Climate change is a fact, and it is not new. The data is clear that climate change has happened to humans before, creating a crucible for change.
On the plains of eastern Colorado, at the end of the last Ice Age, the indigenous people there faced rapid and dramatic climate change, just as we do now. In the novel Journey of the Goddess by David Johnson, the rapidly changing conditions that came as a result of a sudden and well documented shift out of the Ice Age imperil a group of hunter/gatherers on the plains. Known to the groups around them as the Grass People, they are faced with increasingly difficult choices for survival as resources become scarce. Even as they approach starvation over the always lean winter time, the group is unable to decide what they should best do to help them survive, much like certain groups and countries in the modern world. Ultimately in the story, just as in life today, the fate of the group depends on the choices individuals make.
David Johnson is an English teacher, author and artist who meticulously researched this book for 4 years before publication. "The climate change these people faced was very real and very sudden," Johnson said. "Temperatures rose dramatically in less than a generation, and the old ways of doing things could not be sustained. Just like now, they had to adapt and change, or die."
Journey of the Goddess is available now from Amazon and from Lulu (www.lulu.com), the world's fastest-growing provider of print-on-demand books.
Link to publication : http://www.lulu.com/yoshiwara
About the author
David Johnson resides on the plains of eastern Colorado where he teaches English, writes and creates art in various media, as well as practicing Native American dance with the Raven Dancers in Denver. This is David's third novel, and the first one published by Lulu.
Media Contact
David Johnson, djohnson@djohnsonbooks.com, 719-360-6429
www.djohnsonbooks.com
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On the plains of eastern Colorado, at the end of the last Ice Age, the indigenous people there faced rapid and dramatic climate change, just as we do now. In the novel Journey of the Goddess by David Johnson, the rapidly changing conditions that came as a result of a sudden and well documented shift out of the Ice Age imperil a group of hunter/gatherers on the plains. Known to the groups around them as the Grass People, they are faced with increasingly difficult choices for survival as resources become scarce. Even as they approach starvation over the always lean winter time, the group is unable to decide what they should best do to help them survive, much like certain groups and countries in the modern world. Ultimately in the story, just as in life today, the fate of the group depends on the choices individuals make.
David Johnson is an English teacher, author and artist who meticulously researched this book for 4 years before publication. "The climate change these people faced was very real and very sudden," Johnson said. "Temperatures rose dramatically in less than a generation, and the old ways of doing things could not be sustained. Just like now, they had to adapt and change, or die."
Journey of the Goddess is available now from Amazon and from Lulu (www.lulu.com), the world's fastest-growing provider of print-on-demand books.
Link to publication : http://www.lulu.com/yoshiwara
About the author
David Johnson resides on the plains of eastern Colorado where he teaches English, writes and creates art in various media, as well as practicing Native American dance with the Raven Dancers in Denver. This is David's third novel, and the first one published by Lulu.
Media Contact
David Johnson, djohnson@djohnsonbooks.com, 719-360-6429
www.djohnsonbooks.com
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