America’s Parable: Octavia Butler Tried to Warn Us

Economic instability, climate change, and White Christian fascism made a maelstrom

The Statue of Liberty is broken and nearly underwater in this creative artwork. Image: Getty Images

Twenty-eight years ago, famed science-fiction author Octavia Butler published her apocalyptically prescient bestselling novel Parable of the Sower, which illustrated what America would look like when climate change, economic instability, and…