PERC is thrilled to announce the publication of Where We Swim, a collection of essays by member Ingrid Horrocks. Where We Swim examines relationships, our ecological crises, and the responsibilities we have to collectively care.
Fellow PERC member Laura Jean McKay explains…
“Ingrid is writing literally in this book: about the physical, cultural, emotional and environmental impact of human immersion in water. ‘It’s about’, she writes, ‘being on the edge of the sea, about shipping lines and flight paths and whale migration routes.’ The generosity of this book is that of an author with arms outstretched, as if to embrace, but also to tread water, exposing that vulnerable space of belly and chest to the realities of the climate changed world she faces as a person, as a parent, as a sibling, as a child; to 47 degree Phoenix Arizona heat that grounds planes because the hot air is too thin for them to take off safely; to a ‘New Zealand [that] has the highest rate of car ownership in the OECD, and the fifth highest greenhouse gas emissions per capita’ – mostly from agriculture; to an Australia that honours the colonial flame, ignoring the tens of thousands of years of Indigenous fire.”
Congratulations, Ingrid!