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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Butler’s Nightmare Climate Change Vision
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Butler’s Theology in Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” shows new ways of imagining God.
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Cut the Heat, Plow Through It
Hilda Doolittle captures heat such as we are currently experiencing it.
The World Will End in Fire AND Ice
With extreme climate, the world in likely to end (to cite Robert Frost) in fire AND ice.
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Add the Climate to a Week of Disasters
Mary Oliver’s poem on climate change mixes wonder and sadness.
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Manchin Delivers a Lump of Coal
Two Scott Bates environmental Christmas poems are helping me cope with depression over the failure of the Build Back Better bill.
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The Tornadoes and America’s Fairy Tale
The Kentucky tornadoes bring to mind the cyclone in “Wizard of Oz.”
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