A review by librarymouse
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh

challenging funny informative medium-paced

5.0

I read and annotated The Great Derangement for a grad school class, and therefore, I have more to say about it than would reasonably fit in an easy-to-read review. In short, Gosh brings up interesting and in some ways obvious perspectives on the issue of climate change and the affiliation between the establishment, art movements, and the struggle that comes about in depicting real life, exceptional or catastrophic experiences in realistic fiction. The collection of all of this information and its application to systemic inequalities contributing to/underwriting the global climate crisis, for all its understandability offers a profound understanding. I highly recommend reading this. As someone who is generally highly anxious, especially so around climate issues, this was informative in a way that avoided the nihilism of much of the other texts I've read on the subject.
Reading this in 2023, Gosh's prediction that the west will allow the global south and other former colonies to bear the brunt of climate change and/or direct violence in order for Western countries/elite to maintain their way of life is becoming further and further unsettlingly true.
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