Misery May – Sarah Crossen – Breathe

This would be good for Misery May – a follow up to the Misery March (Dystopian) blog of last year. Breathe is about a world without sufficient oxygen. So everyone lives in air rich pods and are taxed according to their air consumption.  For Auxiliaries (third class people) there is not enough air to allow exertion whereas the rich (Premiums) can go jogging and the like.  There are the typical government secrets and corruption elements within the story but what resonated with me was the idea of what will happen if we don’t start doing something about population, pollution, environmental damage and so on.  I am currently teaching a Geography unit on Population and it is startling how unsustainable our current population in terms of its impact on the environment and so  it is difficult to imagine a happy future for us in terms of water, air, plants etc. This book picks up on that idea.  Read more at http://www.sarahcrossan.com/.