Blog Action Day 2009

1. Today is Blog Action Day, first held in 2007. BAD organizes bloggers to write about a particular cause every year on October 15.
2. This year, more than 7,000 bloggers around the world have signed up to blog about Climate Change.
3. Climate Change itself is a non-political concept. Just think of volcanic eruptions and the impact from the ash in the air. Large eruptions can cause a planet-wide cooling for several years.
4. The term Climate Change has been co-opted into political debate regarding environmental policy, but I'm not going there.
5. I have an interest in the idea of humanity's stewardship of the planet from a pure plot bunny perspective.
6. A plot bunny is an idea that runs away from you and multiplies until it cannot be denied and you must write it. Really, its an obsessive little critter. It usually strikes when you're working on something else.
7. Post-Apocalyptic movies and books frequently involve Climate Change. Perfect example: Road Warrior & its desert wasteland.
8. From a story perspective, Climate Change in the extreme, a planet-wide extinction level event, could happen from man-made environmental policies, war, asteroid impact, volcanic eruption, or alien attack. (hey, we're talking fiction, here)
9. I don't think this is what BAD meant when they asked for people to take action and blog about Climate Change. But since I have this plot bunny, all I can think about is post-apocalyptic romance. Yep. I'm going there. I'm writing one. It's the new black.
10. Well, I do have serious thoughts on the subject. Several of my stories involve environmental concerns. In Wolf-Bitten, the werewolves are allergic to all petroleum products (including gasoline) and live in a commune in the wilderness.
11. In Scent of Cin, global warming has created a rift in a barrier over Earth, allowing demons/hellions to come through on the summer solstice.
12. Firestorm on E'Terra (upcoming release) involves a mishap when humans fail to create a livable atmosphere on a planet (terraforming).
13. If I stretch here, I can even say that The Forbidden Chamber involves a kind of climate change when the evil of a setting creates darkness. The weather is dreary, overcast, until the evil is banished. Then the fog lifts.

How's that for Climate Change?