Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
2 reviews
bluejayreads's review
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
This book opens with an extended discussion of the impact of climate change on water (rain, oceans, and rivers) and the devastation it has caused and will cause to the author's home country of India. And I have to say, it was a weird and uncomfortable experience to read about that while in a building with a third of its floor area covered in water from unseasonably torrential rain. I picked it up because I saw a really good quote from it online, but unfortunately found most of it dense and rather dull. I do agree with the main ideas (the point about artists and especially writers needing to provide narratives that give us hope that something can be done about climate change was especially prescient), but I also found my mind wandering a lot while listening.
Content Warnings
Minor: Colonisation
Climate despairfoxreading's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
4.5
Interesting historical perspective and salient critique of the situation
Content Warnings
Moderate: Colonisation
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