Climate Change Literature

 Yes, I may a bee in my bonnet about climate change.  It is the middle of October here in Muncie, Indiana and the temperatures have been more akin to late August.  Anyway, this why I chose to read Addressing the mess we’ve made of things by Gregory Day in the Brisbane Times. Which is a review of Delia Falconer's Signs and Wonders.

Her new book of essays, Signs and Wonders, is continually preoccupied with the end of the world as we know it but equally, and perhaps most interestingly, Falconer zeroes in on the variously nuanced and particular ways climate change is manifesting in our cultural productions, so many of which are nowadays tailored for the phone.

The emotional core of this collection is Falconer’s grappling with the fact that as a mother of young twins there is potentially no escape from the mess industrial capitalism has made, and is still making, of their future. This reality is always present, so that pieces ranging from a short history of coal, to an analysis of the demise of the indented paragraph in current literature, to a bushfire diary, come with a similar heartbeat of personal alarm.

This book appears available in United States.