How does one community come together and face this disrupted future? How do we create a more resilient mutual aid culture? How do we welcome those refugees who have to flee their homes? How do we just adapt? And how do we address the larger systemic issues?

This are the questions Chuck Collins sets out to explore in his newest book, Altar to an Erupting Sun. In his first novel, Collins tells the story of terminally ill Rae Kelliher and her shocking decision to take a “carbon baron” out with her.

Collins joins A Public Affair substitute host Norman Stockwell to talk about the book. Chuck Collins will be at A Room of One’s Own in Madison on Wednesday, August 9th at 6pm for an in person reading and book signing.

Chuck Collins is a campaigner and storyteller who has worked for decades on environmental and economic justice campaigns. He is the director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he co-edits Inequality.org.  He is co-founder of DivestInvest.org, a global movement to divest from fossil fuels and invest in climate solutions, and trustee of the Post Carbon Institute and Resilience.org. He lives with his family in southern Vermont. Author of several books on wealth inequality, including most recently The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions. Altar to an Erupting Sun is his debut novel.

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