<p>The Dark Mountain Project began with a manifesto published in 2009 by two English writers¿Dougald Hine and Paul Kingsnorth¿who felt that literature was not responding honestly to the crises of our time.</p><p>In a world in which the climate is being altered by human activities; in which global ecosystems are being destroyed by the advance of industrial civilisation; and in which the dominant economic and cultural assumptions of the West are visibly crumbling, Dark Mountain asked: where are the writers and the artists? Why are the mainstream cultural forms of our society still behaving as if this were the twentieth century¿or even the nineteenth?</p><p>Dark Mountain¿s call for writers, thinkers and artists willing to face the depth of the mess we are in has made it a gathering point for a growing international network. Rooted in place, time and nature, their work finds a home in the pages of the Dark Mountain books, with two new volumes published every year.</p><p><em>Walking on Lava