Climate change — the upsetting of weather patterns across the world — forms the core concern of Amitav Ghosh’s latest work of non-fiction, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. How human-induced climate change affects our history, thought and consciousness are major questions they are grappling with. End of imagination“It could be said that fiction that deals with climate change is not always taken seriously by serious journals,” Ghosh notes in his book. But this cannot make up for the conspicuous absence of discussions on climate change in works of literature and art, he points out. “It is an achievement in certain respects in that nobody can now credibly deny that climate change is human-induced, but the [Paris] agreement does nothing to change our current patterns of consumption.

Source: The Hindu July 16, 2016 18:45 UTC