Imposing limitations on the carbon emissions of poor countries is widely seen as a covert means of preserving the economic and geopolitical disparities of the last 200 years.  At a recent lecture at King’s College, London, Dr Luca Raimondi, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow, introduced Amitav Ghosh as a writer who traverses the spaces in between fiction and non-fiction “to create continuities of experience across seas and continents.” It is hard to find a better description of Ghosh’s oeuvre.  Dr Raimondi went on to say that genre-bending has not only become the distinctive feature of Ghosh’s writing but also immensely contributed to our understanding of the climate crisis as a crisis of imagination — an interpretation widely commended as one of the most important ways to think about our environment.

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