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Butler’s Nightmare Climate Change Vision

By Robin Bates | Published: September 11, 2022

In “Parable of the Sower,” Butler foresees the human toll of climate change but also looks for hope in our response.

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Wanted: Poets to Fight Climate Change

By Robin Bates | Published: December 29, 2021

To understand role poets can play in fighting climate change, go back to the Romantics and especially “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

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Poets and Climate Change’s 5-Alarm Fire

By Robin Bates | Published: August 11, 2021

Literature has a role to play in the fight against climate change. Coleridge early on showed us how.

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Read to Grapple with Climate Change

By Robin Bates | Published: July 27, 2020

Sian Cain uses literature to grapple with her decision, in light of climate change, not to have children.

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To Fight Climate Change, Plant Gardens

By Robin Bates | Published: January 14, 2020

Wendell Berry asserts that growing and maintaining gardens is an antidote to climate change.

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Byron’s Climate Change Nightmare

By Robin Bates | Published: December 20, 2018

Wednesday News about climate change grows grimmer by the month, with the latest governmental reports predicting that extreme weather events will kill thousands while devastating national economies. I therefore share today a 19th century climate change poem although, in this instance, the climate grows colder rather than warmer. In 1816 the world experienced “the year without […]

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Climate Change, a Witch’s Curse

By Robin Bates | Published: October 12, 2018

Leslie Marmon Silko has an account of ecological disaster in her novel “Ceremony” (also “Almanac of the Dead” that is only too relevant.

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Climate Change Witchery

By Robin Bates | Published: July 30, 2018

Leslie Marmon Silko’s nightmare vision of environmental destruction is being hastened by the Trump administration.

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Climate Change, Fairies Fighting

By Robin Bates | Published: March 6, 2017

Some of the extreme climate events we are currently experiencing are described in “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” where they are the result of fairy infighting

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