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Please leave the moon alone.

Jun 7, 2009
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I recently finished The Dead and the Gone, the cheery sequel to Life As We Knew It. Both are stories of What Happens After catastrophic climate change caused by an asteroid crashing into the moon and altering its orbit. With the increased gravitational pull from the moon being closer to Earth, enormous tides flood coastal areas, volcanoes erupt, ash causes mass crop failure ... and then to top it off there is a flu epidemic.

the dead and the gone

Susan Beth Pfeffer

What I took away from this is that my emergency box is WAY understocked (in both books the entire second half

Exodus

is essentially rationing canned goods gotten through smart planning or corpse robbing) and that -- again -- I am total zombie fodder. I thought it was both wise and maybe cowardly to make the environmental disaster something external and both unlikely and unavoidable (an asteroid) instead of the much more likely global warming scenario (a la another YA disaster novel where the flood is totally man-made). But then these would have been different, more political novels, instead of survival tales. And please! Nothing is going to crash into the moon any time soon, so we're fine, right?

Wait, what's this I hear from NASA? They are planning to crash a huge satellite into the moon? And "the resulting debris plume is expected to rise more than six miles"?

Well then. Looks like I'd better find my can opener.