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SUMMARY:Humanising Climate Change - EA Sustain
DESCRIPTION:Abi Daré\, Humanising Climate Change\nSaturday 28 March 2026\, 10.00am - 10.45am\nFirstsite\, Colchester - part of EA Sustain\nAbi Daré\, the winner of the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize (2025) for And So I Roar - a novel that shows with unusual force how climate change is never “just” environmental\, but inseparable from justice\, power\, education\, and actual human lives.\n\nIn And So I Roar\, Daré shows how environmental breakdown is rarely experienced as an abstract crisis. Instead\, its consequences are absorbed by those with the least power\, who are then blamed and punished for systemic failures they did not create. The novel follows a young girl accused of “crimes” that are\, in reality\, the outcome of climate disruption\, poverty\, and entrenched social injustice.\n\nThis conversation explores why fiction can be such an effective way of opening dialogue around climate change: not because it offers easy solutions\, but because it exposes how responsibility is displaced\, how power operates\, and how environmental harm is lived at the most personal level.\n\n \n\nThis event is part of EA Sustain - The biennial festival about Environment\, Culture & Entrepreneurship.\n\nIn partnership with EA Festival\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n 
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LOCATION:Lewis Gardens\, High Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1JH
CATEGORIES:Fiction,In partnership
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