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GreenPeace Debunks FF Industry Lies. 2025.
Debra J. Rosenthal, editor. Teaching the Literature of Climate Change. 2024.
Karen G. Lloyd and Martin Crook. CAPITALISM, COLONISATION AND THE ECOCIDE-GENOCIDE NEXUS. 2023.
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Debra J. Rosenthal, editor. Teaching the Literature of Climate Change. MLA, 2024. 344. Publisher’s description:
Options for Teaching.
“[A]n indispensable sourcebook for instructors and a valuable companion for anyone seeking to comprehend the climate emergency. . . . It is an excellent reference for instructors who want to engage their students with climate literature and the climate change debate in general.” —Ecozone
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Over the past several decades, writers such as Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Octavia E. Butler, and Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner have explored climate change through literature, reflecting current anxieties about humans’ impact on the planet. Emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinarity, this volume embraces literature as a means to cultivate students’ understanding of the ongoing climate crisis, ethics in times of disaster, and the intrinsic intersectionality of environmental issues. Contributors discuss speculative climate futures, the Anthropocene, postcolonialism, climate anxiety, and the usefulness of storytelling in engaging with catastrophe. The essays offer approaches to teaching interdisciplinary and cross-listed courses, including strategies for team-teaching across disciplines and for building connections between humanities majors and STEM majors. The volume concludes with essays that explore ways to address grief and to contemplate a hopeful future in the face of apocalyptic predictions.
Karen G. Lloyd, Martin Crook. CAPITALISM, COLONISATION, AND THE ECOCIDE-GENOCIDE NEXUS. U. of Chicago P, 2023.
Focusing on the former British colonies of Kenya and Australia, Crook draws attention to the critical role that ecological destruction has in the genocide of Indigenous and place-based peoples. He synthesizes radical political ecology with a political-economic approach, illuminating the inherent genocidal and ecocidal properties of global capitalism. Reviewed in Climate and Capitalism.
END OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #233, JUNE 2, 2025. Compiled by Dick Bennett