Laura Ingalls Wilder’s romance with the west turned dark during the Great Depression, anticipating many of today’s Trump voters.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder, Trump Supporter
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Climate Inaction Will Lead to a Dystopia
If we refuse to do anything to counteract climate change, we are doing grave injustice to our children and grandchildren. Russell Hoban’s post-apocalyptic fantasy “Riddley Walker” captures the selfishness that we would be guilty of.
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Tolstoy and Climate Change Denial
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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Reflecting on “A Little Learning”
Pope’s “a little learning is a dangerous thing” applies to many of today’s policy debates.
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Out of Denialism and into Responsibility
Denialism such as we are seeing with regard to climate change is well describe in “All the King’s Men.”
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Haiyan, Climate Change Denial, & Lear
“King Lear” gives us language to describe Typhoon Haiyan and also a framework to understand climate change denialism.
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