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Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
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 inability at the level of literature, history, and politics to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today s 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 existence a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer s summons to confront the most urgent task of our time. "
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guidosophia
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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! 8y
Smrloomis @KarenUK yup! 😂 8y
BestOfFates It's a terrible problem! 8y
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minkyb Amazing how that happens! 8y
night_shift That's why you drop them in the outside spot and don't even risk going inside 😂 8y
Smrloomis @BestOfFates @minkyb yes and I wish I could follow @UnidragonFrag advice 😂! Someday... 8y
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