Corvee: Catastrophic Anthropogenic Indentured Servitude

Corvée is the third of five books in a dystopian catastrophic anthropogenic satirical novel series. In Book 1, "Proxy", levee failure has destroyed the home of climate activists Duncan and Iolanda Mellon. They are missing and presumed dead, but their signatures are needed to unlock millions of dollars of carbon sequestration funds in the state's carbon account. In Book 2, “Jumbo”, Climate International has built Jumbo, a global climate modeling computer, with its power used to control digital thermometers and decode the communications of climate skeptics. Jumbo’s desert renewable solar power supply is destroyed by alluvial fan flooding. In Book 3, “Corvée”, Climate International, or Climintern, employs Rev. James Stonecaster, pastor of the church of carbon redemption, and Henry Walden, Climintern’s s technical representative, to repair the failed levee after a coal company offers millions of dollars to obtain climate mitigation credits. Stonecaster and Walden follow the example of the state using corvée labor for its HyperTube transportation system, to use unpaid indentured servitude to repair the levee. They argue that climate science without sea level rise supports repair a levee for carbon sequestration. Environmental opponents argue that the same climate science with sea level rise supports opposing levee repair. All efforts are stymied when two Climate Messiahs and their climate automobile, the Model Svante Arrhenius, stir the climate pot.