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Station Eleven and Building from the Ground Up - by Charuta

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on the human project

Station Eleven and Building from the Ground Up on the human project Charuta Jul 16, 2023 2 Share Amitav Ghosh wrote in The Great Derangement that our current narrative structures for fiction are inadequate and imaginatively inept to address the climate crisis. Linear, novelistic structure fails to capture the species-wide and planetary proportions of the crisis — to the extent that any narrative that attempts to do this is relegated to the realm of science fiction. As Evan Tims pointed out in his recent piece for Himal Southasia , climate fiction has changed tactics and flourished in doing so:

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