A Climate of Revenge

Sarah and JanetM are a human/Artificial Intelligence pair who do private investigations in the near future where our climate crisis has hit and hit hard. Sarah turned down a job offer from Jackson Winestead. He is an ex-executive apparently interested in hiring Sarah to promote his I'm-a-good-guy-now image. Sarah does not trust him and has no patience for such monsters.

Soon after, two policemen arrive at Sarah's house to inform her that Winestead was found dead not twenty minutes after they met. The next day, Winestead's wife Venessa approaches Sarah to offer her a quite different job. Winestead has left money for Sarah to find his killer and report privately to his family.

Sarah and JanetM take on the murder investigation. What first appeared simple a case of greenwashing grows within the international environmental crisis. Sarah and JanetM are in the thick of it, surrounded by secrets and lies, as they seek the killer of a man with a thousand enemies in a world with a million problems.

The IPCC report, "Climate Change 2022, Impacts, Adaption and Vulnerability summary contains:

C5.3 Enhancing knowledge
A wide range of ... processes ... can deepen climate knowledge and sharing, including ... using the arts ... (high confidence).

This story is a response to this clarion call. It is a story of young people in effective action on our historic problems.