Tag Archives: climate change

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.

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.”

By Robin Bates | Published: December 19, 2021

Two Scott Bates environmental Christmas poems are helping me cope with depression over the failure of the Build Back Better bill.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 12, 2021

The Kentucky tornadoes bring to mind the cyclone in “Wizard of Oz.”

By Robin Bates | Published: September 7, 2021

Comparing Hurricane Id’s damage with a supernatural rainstorm in Murakami’s “1Q84” leads to interesting climate observations.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 26, 2021

Lewis’s Aslan is a bold creative stroke that opens up environmental possibilities for Christianity.

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.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 30, 2021

Blake’s “Jerusalem” can be read as a challenge to oppose the forces of climate change that threaten our beautiful country.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 22, 2020

Gaiman’s account of the Norse apocalypse Ragnarok comes close to describing a world destroyed by climate change.