Stolen from the headlines: Battery Park City resident Jon Pepper has written a satirical novel about climate alarmism that was inspired by the tactics used by the Battery Park City Authority to raze Wagner Park “and begin a $1 billion+ remake of a perfectly fine neighborhood,” as Pepper describes it.

The book, titled “Missy’s Twitch,” centers around an heiress to an energy fortune that was built off fossil fuels, Missy Mayburn Crowe, and the overwhelming anxiety she experiences due to the looming “climate apocalypse.” Wracked with guilt over her family’s possible contributions to climate change, Missy develops an involuntary twitch, diagnosed by a famed TV shrink as ‘climatosis.’

Exposure on television and in social media propels climatosis into a worldwide social contagion and Missy gets swept up in a fever of exploitation by politicians, media and business opportunists as “proof” that the apocalypse is now. Settings in the book include the Jenga Building, Pier 26, Governors Island, Brookfield Place, Broad Street and Sky 55 Bar and Grill.

This is Pepper’s fourth novel in the series he calls Fossil Feuds. He’s lived in BPC since 2007 and is now a consultant, though he spent decades as a journalist and public relations expert. See his TCQ&A here.

“One of the points of my book is that we all need to ask more questions about the assumptions our leaders are making when they force us into expensive, unworkable, and ultimately futile ‘solutions’ that will have no bearing on climate,” Jon said.

You can find the book here on Amazon.