The Great Derangement

In "The Great Derangement," acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh explores our collective failure to comprehend the profound and destructive realities of climate change across literature, history, and politics. He argues that contemporary storytelling often struggles to represent extreme climate events, relegating them to genres outside serious literary fiction. Ghosh also critiques the oversimplification of the climate crisis in historical narratives and highlights the shift in politics toward individual moral dilemmas rather than collective action. Ultimately, he asserts that fiction holds the potential to imagine new forms of human existence, urging us to confront the urgent challenges posed by our changing world.