Just having a second go through your Saxon Chronicles, which I have found captivating and (for a historical illiterate such as myself) highly educational.
I was checking Wikipedia for the order of the novels (darn publishers seem to dislike clearly numbering your series hoping the books will sell as stand-alones, no doubt) when I spotted a blurb about one of your sailing books in which the hero is described as having to “save the world against the environentalists” because “someone has to.”
Say it ain’t so, Mr. Cornwell. How can a lover of history and the sea mock those trying to preserve the biological diversity (and climate) of the earth?
As a sailor, have you ever travelled the great plastic patch in the Pacific which, from what I read, is the size of Texas and has plastic refuse floating at a density of, I believe, several pieces to the square yard?
Have you read about the deafening volume to which man is submitting cetaceans and other undersea creatures with ears? Don’t you like whales and diolphins? Don’t you think the world would be a poorer place without them?
Finally, are you among the tiny percentage of the world’s literate population who remain in denial about man made climate change?
It saddens me that a man of your intellect, energy, and grasp of human nature should stoop to belittling those who believe that a world in which 7 billion people are all trying to emulate a wasteful and irresponsible consumer lifestyle that our predecessors would never have conceived (and our ancestors will undoubtedly curse us for) is a problem that needs to be fought against.
Sincerely,
K. Gutierrez
PS Harry Harrison’s “The Hammer and the Cross” series is an alternate history set in Viking times which holds a somewhat different view of the conditions we find ourselves living in today.