Comparing Hurricane Id’s damage with a supernatural rainstorm in Murakami’s “1Q84” leads to interesting climate observations.
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Hurricane Ida and Murakami’s 1Q84
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Aslan as Eco Warrior
Lewis’s Aslan is a bold creative stroke that opens up environmental possibilities for Christianity.
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Poets and Climate Change’s 5-Alarm Fire
Literature has a role to play in the fight against climate change. Coleridge early on showed us how.
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Hydrocarbons Are Our Dark Satanic Mills
Blake’s “Jerusalem” can be read as a challenge to oppose the forces of climate change that threaten our beautiful country.
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Ragnarok, an Extreme Weather Event
Gaiman’s account of the Norse apocalypse Ragnarok comes close to describing a world destroyed by climate change.
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How to Overlook 200,000 Deaths
Donne’s “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” captures why America might be overlooking 200,000 deaths at the moment.
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Apocalyptic Fire Ravages the Nation
For literary equivalents of the west coast fires, look to “The Aeneid” and to Vasily Grossman’s “Life and Fate.”
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Without Nature, No Language for Soul
In an age when we are exhausted by apocalyptic rhetoric, Richard Wilbur provides a poem that remind us of how much we owe to natural beauty.
