THE GREAT DERANGEMENT

CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE UNTHINKABLE

01 July, 2016

Amitav Ghosh

In this work of non-fiction, the writer Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think us deranged given our imaginative failure in the face of global climate change. Ghosh examines our inability—in literature, history and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of the crisis. One contributing factor, he suggests, is that politics and literature have become spaces of personal moral reckoning rather than arenas of collective action—shifts that come at great cost to our health and chances of survival.

penguin books, 284 pages, RS. 399