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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable is a 2016 non-fiction book by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh discussing climate change. In it, Ghosh discusses the cultural depictions, history and politics of climate change, and its relationship to colonialism.
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis is a 2021 non-fiction book by Amitav Ghosh. It discusses colonialism and environmental issues with particular focus on the Banda Islands. [1] It is Ghosh's second non-fiction work to discuss climate change, after The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016).
Ghosh was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2024, specifically for his writing on climate change: "His work offers a remedy by making an uncertain future palpable through compelling stories about the past. He also wields his pen to show that the climate crisis is a cultural crisis that results from a dearth of the imagination."
It contains contributions from more than 100 academics, thinkers and campaigners, including novelists Margaret Atwood and Amitav Ghosh, climate scientist Saleemul Huq and World Health Organization ...
The author, Amitav Ghosh, stated that he wanted the story to exist in different iterations. [8] In an interview with India Today [11] Ghosh argues that the human obsession with words is partly responsible for the climate crisis as words tend to focus on the life and culture of humans, neglecting the many other beings that live on Earth. For ...
In 2016, Indian writer Amitav Ghosh described what he perceived as a lack of coverage of climate change in contemporary fiction as "the great derangement". Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake series is an often cited dystopian novel in ecocriticism.
Trump could order the U.S. to withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement, an international pact to fight climate change and limit the rise in global temperatures by slashing fossil fuel-related emissions.
Climate change will also affect home insurance policies, which could, in turn, affect the housing market. That's “the biggest bogey out there because you just can’t plan for it,” Silver said.