If on a winter’s night a cyclone
Thomas Jones: ‘The Great Derangement’, 18 May 2017
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
by Amitav Ghosh.
Chicago, 176 pp., £15.50, September 2016,978 0 226 32303 9 Show More
by Amitav Ghosh.
Chicago, 176 pp., £15.50, September 2016,
“... Reading Amitav Ghosh’s book, I realised something that I feel naive for not having thought of before: trying to convince ‘climate sceptics’ of the reality of anthropogenic climate change is a waste of time. By ‘climate sceptics’ I don’t mean the apparently growing number of people who don’t believe in climate change because they were freezing cold this winter and trust what Donald Trump or Nigel Farage tells them on Fox News or the BBC ... ”