at exactly the time when it has become clear that global warming is in every sense a collective predicament… — Amitav Ghosh
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.
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