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<p>Thanks, Ted! <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/5/2017 7:53 PM, Ted Moffett wrote:<br>
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<div>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 <i>In an Antique Land</i>, Ghosh examines our
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<div><font size="4">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 <i>In an Antique Land</i>,
Ghosh examines our inability—at the level of literature,
history, and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of
climate change.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.</font></div>
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