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The Great Derangement
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh
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Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inabilityat the level of literature, history, and politicsto grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of todays climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements. Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existencea task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writers summons to confront the most urgent task of our time.
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AllDebooks
AllDebooks
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh
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#NaturaLitsy November #buddyread discussion thread.

🌍 Did you manage to read it?

🌎 How does Ghosh's non-fiction writing compare to his fiction works?

🌍 Did you enjoy the book?

🌎 Did you learn or discover anything new?

All welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

Up next - The Hidden Universe (tagged in comments).

AllDebooks December - https://litsy.com/p/WHhwZmJrMGxC 6d
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rockpools Hi Deb. I‘m not doing so well with planned reads at the moment, so please could I come off the tag list for now? Thank you ☺️ 6d
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AllDebooks @rockpools of course. I hope you find some peace and free time to do what you enjoy most. X 6d
Bookwormjillk I really liked The Hungry Tide which is the only other Ghosh book I have read. I will definitely look for more. I liked this book. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. 5d
AllDebooks @Bookwormjillk I love the different perspectives. The Nutmeg Curse is really good, too.
[tagged book]Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa Mine is still on the hold list at the library 🫠 4d
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Bookwormjillk
Bookwormjillk
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh
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I liked that this book looked at climate change from more of a non-western point of view that I usually see. I also appreciated the comparison between Pope Francis‘ Laudato si‘ and the Paris Climate Accord. #Naturalitsy @AllDebooks #NonfictionNovember

AllDebooks It was good to see a different perspective. 6d
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Bookwormjillk
Bookwormjillk
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh
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The idea for Frankenstein came to Shelley during a ghost story competition with her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori during the cold summer of 1816. #TodayILearned #NFN

BookmarkTavern It‘s such an interesting story! 1w
Bookwormjillk @BookmarkTavern it is! 6d
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LitsyEvents
LitsyEvents
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh
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#NaturaLitsy
My apologies. I forgot to post November's read.
Amitav Ghosh looks at the impact of climate change in his 2016 non-fiction book, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. He focuses on the influence of culture, history, and politics on environmental issues and how these relate to colonialism.
All are welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

Via @ALLDEBOOKS

AllDebooks Thank you for the share x 1mo
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AllDebooks
AllDebooks
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh
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#NaturaLitsy

My apologies. I forgot to post November's read.

Amitav Ghosh looks at the impact of climate change in his 2016 non-fiction book, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. He focuses on the influence of culture, history, and politics on environmental issues and how these relate to colonialism.

All are welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

@LitsyEvents

AllDebooks I'm also behind on previous months' discussion threads. I'll post these soon. 1mo
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guidosophia
guidosophia
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh
Mehso-so

The last book I had to read for my Frankenstein and climate change class!!!!! This book was much more accessible and easy to read than the tambora book we had to read. I still didn‘t enjoy it (and I didn‘t enjoy the essay I had to write on it) but at least it was better than that. I‘m glad I didn‘t have to read it as summer reading for college tho

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AllDebooks
AllDebooks
Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh
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#Naturalitsy #Climatechange

The Guardian's long read article by Rebecca Solnit is very concise, calling for more good news stories to combat despair & indifference.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jan/12/rebecca-solnit-climate-crisis-popul...

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AllDebooks
AllDebooks
Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh
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#Naturalitsy

#Cop27 starts tomorrow, here's hoping for some serious changes put in place. If you're interested in learning more about climate change, environmentalism and activism, some of my top books are tagged above and in comments. Please feel free to add your own recommendations.

https://www.unep.org/events/conference/un-climate-change-conference-unfccc-cop-2...

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mklong
mklong
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh
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Mehso-so

Interesting insights, but I think there was a bit too much repetition and speculation. Perhaps it would have worked better at essay length rather than book length.

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kishore_kk
kishore_kk
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh
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#Amitavghosh explains the impact of global warming in very simple way and with the examples which are very much relatable to the common people's daily life.
Extreme weather events and changing climatic situations of our earth are the major areas of concern and require immediate attention.
Although nothing new has been said by the author but it force us to think seriously about climate change.

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Smrloomis
Smrloomis
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh
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Somehow ended up with this book when I went to the library... I was only supposed to be returning books, not borrowing more. Oops. @KarenUK

KarenUK 😂it's a problem! 9y
Smrloomis @KarenUK yup! 😂 9y
BestOfFates It's a terrible problem! 9y
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minkyb Amazing how that happens! 9y
night_shift That's why you drop them in the outside spot and don't even risk going inside 😂 9y
Smrloomis @BestOfFates @minkyb yes and I wish I could follow @UnidragonFrag advice 😂! Someday... 9y
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