Tag: climate futures
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A Tale of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World, edited by John Freeman
This teaching resource was contributed by Kaitlin Mondello, Ph.D. Core Text A Tale of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World edited by John Freeman, Penguin Books, 2020. Summary This book collects writing across genres and across the globe on the pressing issue of climate change. As the subtitle indicates, it…
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Climate Change is Violence by Rebecca Solnit
This short essay could be a good beginning text—clear, concise, full of factoids—that emphasizes the slippery environmental rhetoric of both corporations and institutions as well as the ways in which the climate crisis is not a coming event but current and widespread violence.
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10:04 by Ben Lerner
In this autofictional novel set in New York City, the narrator tells the story of how the book came to be. We learn that the novel was financed based on the promise of a short story that the narrator “Ben” published in The New Yorker, and we see the conception of the project change as…
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The Environmental Manifesto
These three short texts all raise questions about apocalypse, hope, and culture change, and might serve as a starting point for inviting students to explore their own fears around climate change as well as what kinds of cultural change they hope to see.
