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CLIMATE POLICY DOMINATED BY PIGS.
Animal Farm 2 by Martin Knox is a sequel to Orwell’s 1945 political satire Animal Farm. After the revolution, the pigs subjugate the farm animals by heinous totalitarianism. The story continues in the Cold War on a tropical island controlled by the Social Republic, near the Democratic Union. When the Social Republic withdraws its missiles, the confrontation continues in superpower climate politics and alludes to several contemporary characters and events. Tired from their labour, the animals study English and climate science. They discover the pigs’ climate strategy is self-interested nonsense and plan to oust the pigs. Will a second revolution succeed? Can the animals farm without pig control?
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SOVIET ALTERNATIVES SATIRE
Animal Farm 2 is a 2021 sequel by Martin Knox to Animal Farm, published in 1945, a satirical novel by George Orwell. The first book told a story of farm animals that revolted against their farmer and took over the running of the farm. The pigs moved into the farmhouse and forced the animals to slave on the farm for their benefit.
The new satire updates Orwell’s story continuing to parallel Russia’s revolution under dictator Stalin’s totalitarian regime. The farm is on a fictional island Caruba, controlled by Russia, near the other superpower, the Democratic Union. In the sequel, the farm has a microcosm of conditions in parallel with Soviet developments: the Cold War, perestroika, climate change and invasion of Ukraine.
A boar dictator, Dimitri, uses climate policy to continue his predecessors totalitarian tyranny, with arbitrary ideology, centralisation, promulgation of fear in the population, privations and individual superfluity.
His energy diplomatic envoy, Algy, a large white boar, travels worldwide promoting his Greenhouse Gases theory of global warming. The animals learn climate science, debating in pidgin English the validity of the theory and the shutting down of their coal mine, which is their only source of income.
When Dimitri’s energy policy impoverishes the islanders, they unite in a second revolution.
Will they achieve the liberation they want? Will they be able to run the farm without pigs?
The novel has farm dramas alternating with explanations of basic climate science that contradict several orthodoxies and are supported by the literature.
The purpose of Animal Farm 2 is to entertain by exposing fake science and the manipulation of climate policies for private gain. The exegesis here is not intended to win debates but rather to show that there are credible alternative viewpoints that can be investigated, probably resulting in policy reversals.
Animal Farm 2 is available on Amazon at this link https://tinyurl.com/cwrwww6d
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CAN ANIMALS FARM WITHOUT PIGS?
Animal Farm was published in 1945 by author George Orwell, satirizing collectivism at a time when western countries felt threatened by Russia’s totalitarian communism.
Animal Farm 2 by Martin Knox is a new sequel to Orwell’s satire, from Soviet to modern times, when western countries may feel vulnerable to Russian restoration and expansionism.
The farm animals are on Caruba Island under superpower influence. They have learned English and climate science, to challenge the ruling pigs who exploit them cruelly. They are forced to labour in the farm’s coal mine. When the pigs shut it down, they are without pay and energy. Will the animals revolt again and depose the pigs, who deposed the farmer?
The animals are seeking animal liberation but how would they govern the farm?
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ANIMAL FARM EPILOGUE
After George Orwell wrote Animal Farm (1945), Martin Knox wrote Animal Farm 2 (2021), The books satirize political and economic conditions, in a revolutionary setting from 1917 to about 2023, as one continuous narrative, paralleling historical events.
After the revolution had deposed the farmer, The animals were subjected to the oppressive control of a totalitarian regime. It had a pig dictator, a shambolic and arbitrary ideology and fearful animal masses.
A ruling class of pigs runs the farm corruptly in order to live luxuriously, keeping the other animals in penury. At the end of Orwell’s book, the animals are in a hopeless situation.
The sequel by Knox considers a microcosm of their predicament, magnified in a Cold War confrontation on Caruba Island, under pig rule. The Social Republic, which is a pig superpower and a Democratic Union of free nations, manoeuvre for geopolitical control of World energy supplies.
The animals learn climate science and question the pigs’ closure of their coal mine, the only income they have. The pigs use energy supply restrictions to make the workers superfluous and prolong their totalitarian rule.
To divert attention from internal hardship and dissent, the pigs enjoin the animals to invade a neighbouring territory, but they revolt again and oust the pigs. The animals get democratic rule at last.
Animal Farm is a story in which ordinary animals achieve, against the odds, liberation by reasoning, science and bravery. They learn to counter the misinformation of leaders, listening to each other and to elders. The setting is both familiar and dystopian. The books show the fallacy of totalitarian rule. The animals could operate Animal Farm much better. Pig rule is not needed. The animals succeed, in a story both uplifting and humorous.
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