Humans are largely responsible for the rising global temperatures that have triggered changes in weather and climate. Climate change has become a major issue and a crisis that is a challenge to our society and environment.
This year alone, Bangladesh, Texas and the Caribbean islands have all suffered devastating flooding. Mankind has been telling stories about floods for at least as long as we’ve had the technology of writing. We take a look at five of the best to see what hope, if any, we can glean from them.
Should novels be ‘uncivilised’? We look at the fiction of former environmentalist Paul Kingsnorth to see what, if anything, literature can do in the face of climate change.
