![]() ![]() Similarly, Arundhati Roy cautions readers that we are engaged in a race toward extinction “as we lurch into the future, in this blitzkrieg of idiocy, Facebook ‘likes’, fascist marches, fake-news coups” (Roy 2). Amitav Ghosh in his work The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, wonders if the present generation is deranged! He warns readers that “this era, which so congratulates itself on its self-awareness, will come to be known as the time of the Great Derangement” (Ghosh 11). Postcolonial writers like Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy and Sudeep Sen have adopted an eco-critical sleight of hand to spark eco-critical awareness to the world at large. ![]() It’s unsettling to think that we are now on the verge of destroying ourselves and the planet because of our own efforts to make the world a comfortable place … there are massacres, world wars, genocides, floods, famines, plagues … We’ll have to change – our ideas, our attitudes, our very make-up. ![]() Will we write ourselves off as a failed society who let climate change lead us to a well-merited oblivion? ![]() She muses on how we will be perceived by our future generations. N her preface to Dangerous Pursuits, Suniti Namjoshi warns readers that our reckless pursuit and addictive use of fossil fuels is a ‘dangerous’ one. ![]()
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