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There is an element of the unexpected in the twinning of fiction and ecology. A sense of unease of sorts exists in the pairing together of fiction, a form of narrative that is untrue, with the imminent ecological disaster, an environmental inevitability that is true.
This article will be released in full online February 14, 2022. Across the humanities and the social sciences, critical attention is being given to the nonhuman…
Point of no return
There needs to be a shift in the way we analyse global warming and think about climate change
January 18, 2021
Year 2020, tying in with 2016, has been the hottest year on record with the Earth’s average temperature increase being 1.02 degrees Celsius above the baseline pre-industrial temperatures a number that is currently accelerating by 0.2 degrees every decade. But what environmentalists are most fearful of is that despite the slowdown in economic activity owing to the Covid-19 pandemic and despite witnessing one of the strongest La Nina a cool phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation climate pattern event, the global temperature spike is consistent with an upward trend. This means that we are rapidly heading towards the point of no return.