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Literature and Climate Change

By Robin Bates | Published: January 27, 2016

Thoughts about the genre label “cli-fi” and an annotated list of past posts about literature and climate change.

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Donne’s Warning about Climate Change

By Robin Bates | Published: December 29, 2015

Looking back over the past year, I repost an essay on John Donne’s “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” and climate change denial. Given that 2015 has been the warmest year on record and that “the weather outside is frightful,” Donne’s comments about “moving of th’ earth” are only too relevant.

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Tolstoy and Climate Change Denial

By Robin Bates | Published: September 28, 2015

The denial of the citizens of Moscow as Napoleon approaches the city, described by Tolstoy in “War in Peace,” resembles climate change denialism.

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Donne and Climate Change Denial

By Robin Bates | Published: June 2, 2015

Somewhat unexpectedly, John Donne’s “Valediction Forbidding Mourning” gives insight into climate change denial.

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Climate Change: Signs of Witchery

By Robin Bates | Published: November 25, 2014

Native American author Leslie Marmon Silko warns of ecological disaster if we don’t change our relationship to the earth.

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Melville and Climate Change Denial

By Robin Bates | Published: May 12, 2014

Melville’s “Benito Cereno” perfectly captures Rightwing denial of climate change.

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Haiyan, Climate Change Denial, & Lear

By Robin Bates | Published: November 18, 2013

“King Lear” gives us language to describe Typhoon Haiyan and also a framework to understand climate change denialism.

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Add the Climate to a Week of Disasters

By Robin Bates | Published: May 9, 2022

Mary Oliver’s poem on climate change mixes wonder and sadness.

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Kingsolver Explains Climate Denial

By Robin Bates | Published: September 6, 2017

Rush Limbaugh has been calling Hurricanes Harvey and Irma liberal conspiracies. In “Flight Behavior,” Barbara Kingsolver shows the dangerous impact of such pronouncements.

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