The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

Amitav Ghosh

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196 pages | first published 2016

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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 In an Antique Land...
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