The Dry After the terrible devastation caused by last year’s bushfires, which prompted hundreds of Australians to shelter in the ocean to escape incineration and destroyed uncountable amounts of wildlife, The Dry has been released during a totally different kind of dry spell. The pandemic has provided an instructive sense of scale, of how much we are going to have to change patterns of consumption in order to overcome the climate crisis. We stopped flying, gave up commuting, and closed down many factories, all of which ended business as usual pretty much across the entire planet, far more than we