In this powerful, eloquent, and elucidating essay, Marilynne
Robinson has pinpointed exactly the motives and the mythology and
the reality behind the destruction of our planet. The Sellafield
nuclear reprocessing plant in Great Britain is a perfect metaphor
for twentieth-century genocide. Not the small, insane eruptions of
eradication that took place in Hitler's Germany, but rather that
routine, day-to-day, thoroughly "democratic" envenomation of the
planet by a current industrial magic (encouraged, or at least
condoned, by almost everybody), which threatens to terminate
everything on earth in the quite foreseeable future.
Robinson's book is as powerful a contribution to the literature
of revelation and protest as was that seminal photographic essay by
W. Eugene and Aileen Smith on Minamata's disease fifteen years ago.
It is as bloodcurdling as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, as
thought-provoking and prophetic as the best works of people like
Barry Commoner and Loren Eiseley.
This is a work of great intelligence and fine investigative
reporting. It is also a lucid interpretation of history, and very
important in its discussions of the roots of current dilemmas. And
lastly, Mother Country is courageous, and marvelous literature at
its best.
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