Amitav Ghosh

At such points, I always go back to @amitav.bsky.social ‘s brilliant analysis contrasting the Paris Agreement with the Pope’s Laudato Si’ in The Great Derangement, p150-159.

The former using torturous language and magical thinking and never addressing root cause, the latter, quite the opposite 2/

Writer Amitav Ghosh delivering the presidential address at the 2023 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California, on 11 December 2023.

Thrilled beyond measure that @amitav.bsky.social is here at #AGU23 to provoke #AGU members to consider the reductive qualities of many assumptions and biases about the #climatecrisis

It was an incredible talk! Thanks @amitav.bsky.social for coming to deliver it!

What a lovely first day of #AGU23 with some really neat science (Rifts! Meteorite impacts! Tsunamis! Supercontinents!) and a fantastic plenary talk by @amitav.bsky.social. Can’t wait to read Smoke and Ashes.

Still thinking about @amitav.bsky.social plenary at #AGU23 today, challenging the elite scientific view of the climate crisis and how actual humans in the actual world are responding

The New Jersey Mayor With a Plan to End Traffic Deaths In Hoboken, Mayor Ravi Bhalla has worked to redesign city intersections, install bike lanes and slow traffic. The result? Six-plus years of no pedestrian fatalities.

Thanks to the efforts of Mayor Ravi Bhalla, "Hoboken hasn’t reported a single traffic death since January 2017, and injuries have dropped 41%."

Literally the first thing I read after posting the chart above......gimme a chance to get emissions data, @amitav.bsky.social!

The two most important books I’ve ever read are The Nutmeg’s Curse by @amitav.bsky.social, which documents the colonial depredations that have led to our ecocidal modern techno-industrial dystopia... (1/2)

Für DIE ZEIT habe ich über ein bemerkenswertes Sachbuch geschrieben: "Der Fluch der Muskatnuss" von @amitav.bsky.social erzählt die Kolonialgeschichte einer Pflanze. Und verbindet sie mit #Klimakrise, #Naturverlust, globaler #Ungerechtigkeit. Bei @zeitonline.bsky.social: www.zeit.de/2023/43/der-...

#11 - @amitav.bsky.social
(… a bit of a stretch, but so dapper & a standing-sign!)

On Writing the Unthinkable In your 2016 book The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable you take contemporary literature to task for failing to address the climate and ecological crisis. Have fiction writers woke...

"Often you pick up a novel and you think: what are you writing about?  The whole wide world is disintegrating around you, and you can’t see it!"

Read this blazing interview with @amitav.bsky.social by Liz Jensen - today's blog on the Writers Rebel website.

writersrebel.com/on-writing-t...

Dr Amitav Ghosh @amitav.bsky.social is a renowned writer, thinker, and novelist. His books include The Great Derangement, Gun Island, Nutmeg's Curse and many more. Everyone please say hello!

Thanks Farhana!

Meanwhile, in Slovakia flocks of swans have become addicted to opium poppies

https://www.birdguides.com/news/swans-become-addicted-to-poppy-seeds-at-slovakian-farm/