Climate change cannot be reduced to carbon numbers or recycling habits, but represents a fundamental transformation of life on Earth, writers Barbara Kingsolver and Amitav Ghosh said at the Kolkata Literary Meet on Sunday. It’s the world that makes us possible,” she said, adding that climate change was “too small a name” for what is unfolding. Worry, Kingsolver argued, could either paralyse or motivate action. “Worry can be a disease that paralyses you, or it can be an engine that puts you to work. Kingsolver said fiction has a responsibility to bridge the divide between science and the humanities, particularly in societies where scientific understanding is weak.

Source: The Telegraph January 25, 2026 11:55 UTC