Will the future be utopian or dystopian or somewhere in between? It is up to us and what we do now. ‘Facing the Future’ addresses themes of climate change, global warming, and protest.

Arts Features International, July-September 2019, Facing the Future. Editor: Ruth Skilbeck

Contents

Ruth Skilbeck Editorial: Will the Future be Utopian–or Dystopian? Essay and photographs of the Global Climate Strike, Newcastle, 20 September 2019…7

Michael Gormly Critical thinking quickly sorts out denialist nonsense Essay and Photographs of the Global Climate School Strike, Newcastle, 20 September 2019…14

Deborah Van Heekeren Disconnectivity poem & artwork…22

Ruth Skilbeck Felena Springs utopian speculative fiction story…25

Simon Albert (The University of Queensland), Alistair Grinham (The University of Queensland), Badin Gibbes (The University of Queensland), Javier Leon (University of the Sunshine Coast), John Church (CSIRO). Sea-Level Rise has Claimed Five Whole Islands in the Pacific: first scientific evidence (The Conversation 2016)… 28

Jeremy Gluck On Digital Art and Culture essay & text based artworks… 34

Anthony Sawrey A Thousand Miles Beyond: The Equine Paintings of Hugh Sawrey. Book extract with artworks by Hugh Sawrey…48

Suellen Symons White Cockatoos. Facebook photograph & post…70

Frontline Action on Coal Facebook posts and photographs of a small community Global Climate Strike near Adani mine, Queensland…72

Contributors’ notes…77

ISSN: 2209-8941 (print)

ISBN: 9780648580669 (paperback)

Published in Adamstown ( a suburb in Newcastle) NSW 2289, by Borderstream Books in 2019

Book dimensions: 20.32 x 0.43 x 27.64 cm

Boxed-book Weight: 222 g

Also available in hardback and ebook-pdf

Front cover photograph: Ruth Skilbeck