The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Amitav Ghosh
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Contrary to what I might like to think,my life is not guided by reason;it is ruled rather by the inertia of habitual motion.”
“[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities.”
“Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge.”
“Similarly, at exactly the time when it has become clear that global warming is in every sense a collective predicament, humanity finds itself in the thrall of a dominant culture in which the idea of the collective has been exiled from politics, economics, and literature alike.”
“Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding.”
“I suspect that human beings were generally catastrophists at heart until their instinctive awareness of the earth’s unpredictability was gradually supplanted by a belief in uniformitarianism—a regime of ideas that was supported by scientific theories like Lyell’s, and also by a range of governmental practices that were informed by statistics and probability.”
“annihilation. “Money flows toward short term gain,” writes the geologist David Archer, “and toward the over-exploitation of unregulated common resources. These tendencies are like the invisible hand of fate, guiding the hero in a Greek tragedy toward his inevitable doom.” This is indeed the essence of humanity’s present derangement.”
“[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement.”
“Significant sections of the electorate probably understand that climate change negotiations may have the effect of changing their country’s standing in the world’s hierarchies of power as well as wealth: this may indeed form the basis of their resistance to climate science in general. The refusal to”
“Just as novels have come to be seen as narratives of identity, so too has politics become, for many, a search for personal authenticity, a journey of self-discovery.”
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