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Where's the elephant?
In this seek-and-find book, a growing city encroaches on the jungle forcing the elephant, parrot, and snake on a journey to find a new home.
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Geoengineering from the standpoint of uncertainty and related risks: science or science fiction?
In this opinion/comment we discuss the issues related to proposed geoengineering solutions to climate change. We argue, that while scientifically based, these proposals lack the rigorousness appropriate to the seriousness of the problem.
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Barkskins : a novel
\"Barkskins opens in New France in the late 18th century as Renâe Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. Bound to a 'seigneur' for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship and violence, always in awe of the forest he is charged with clearing. In the course of this epic novel, Proulx tells the stories of Renâe's children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, as well as the descendants of his friends and foes, as they travel back to Europe, to China, to New England, always in quest of a livelihood or fleeing stunningly brutal conditions--war, pestilence, Indian attacks, the revenge of rivals. Proulx's inimitable genius is her creation of characters who are so vivid--in their greed, lust, vengefulness, or their simple compassion and hope--that we follow them with fierce attention. This is Proulx's most ambitious novel ever, and her master work\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ecocritical Post Colonialism and Plantationocene: A Comparative Study of Sky Is My Father by Easterine Kire and Aranyak by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Sky Is My Father is a historical novel by Easterine Kire who writes about the life of Naga indigenous people living amidst naturally rich mountain scape and forced recruitment of Naga tribesmen as bonded labourers by the British which tribal warriors of the Angami tribe try to resist against. Their fight is the collective fight of their community to save the land which they are deeply connected to from British invasion and subjugation. Britain’s colonization of the third world countries have always brought with it deforestation and disruption of habitat of indigenous people and native plant species. Similarly, Bibhutibhushan’s Aranyak is a novel on Satyacharan’s predicament in the pristine jungles of Bhagalpur where he is posted. His guilt comes from the job he is sent there to do which is to cut down the forest that is not only important to the native community there but to him as well. Capitalocene and Plantationocene as Donna Haraway defines is a contemporary epoch which has its roots in European Imperialism. This imperial legacy of rampant exploitation and destruction of environment which is singlehandedly a contribution of Britain’s colonial rule includes subjugation of indigenous people into forced labour along with destruction of forest spaces for resource extraction. What entails as a result is postcolonial trauma within native psyche. Post colonial literatures coming out of South Asia like Sky Is My Father and Aranyak essentially discusses Britain’s expansion, coercive policies and their after effect on the native people of India in relation to the ecological disruption around them.
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Willa of the wood
In the late 1800s, a twelve-year-old nightspirit living in the Great Smoky Mountains despairs as homesteaders destroy her forest habitat, until a chance encounter with a \"day-folk\" man changes everything she thought she knew about her people--and their greatest enemy.
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Arboreal Beings: Reading to Redress Plant Blindness
To put this in plain terms, as geobiologist Hope Jahren does in her engaging memoir Lab Girl: A Story of Trees, Science and Love, 'since 1990 we have created more than eight billion new [tree] stumps. A 2016 study on plant blindness indicates that not only do biological factors make it difficult for humans to 'detect, recall and appreciate plants' but that cultural processes can also play a role, for 'language and practices affect the ways people develop and organise knowledge of their environments, as well as, as well as the world views and values they express in relation to other species' (Balding and Williams 1195). Plants were ranked above inanimate beings at the lowest end of the scale, and were followed by animals, humans, angels and God (Gangliano, Ryan and Vieira ix), a ladder from which, writes philosopher Michael Marder, 'both the everyday and the scientific ways of thinking have not yet completely emancipated themselves' (3). With this in mind, this essay explores the ways in which three texts-John Wyndham's science fiction novel The Day of the Triffids (1951), Peter Wohleben's work of popular science, The Hidden Life of Trees (2015) and Ellen van Neerven's story 'Water' from her collection Heat and Light (2014)-advise readers on plants and plant science.
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The Pattern of Land-Grabbing Practice in Year of the Weeds Novel by Siddhartha Sarma
Environmental issues are increasingly worrying, some of which are in the form of deforestation and land degradation caused by the conversion of forest functions into mining. This study describes the practice of forest land-grabbing by the government in corporations with companies to be used for mining. The data source is Year of the Weeds novel by Siddhartha Sarma. Then, it was analyzed using document analysis techniques with the following stages: unitizing, sampling, recording, reducing, inferring, and narrating. The data validation used an ecocritical approach with primary and secondary references in the form of relevant research articles, books, and information in the media. The findings revealed a pattern of land grabbing practices in the form of government-company cooperation; surveying, measuring, and setting stakes; offering compensation and employment; changing the regulation on the function of the area; involvement of the apparatus and violence; land acquisition experts; and the issue of the involvement of radical groups; and arresting residents. Several developing countries, including India, Indonesia, and Brazil, engage in confiscation with the same practice pattern. This pattern of practice, if carried out continuously, will cause environmental crises.
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Earth Watch
With Earth observation programs from NASA, other space agencies, and governmental agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and even the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (see Resources), we are constantly monitoring our home environment, alert for environmental changes and also weather and climate changes on a local and global scale. Under the umbrella of the NASA Earth Science Division (ESD) there are numerous missions with a focus on observing our planet and providing data useful in many applications including tracking changes in the environment and helping to predict weather patterns that may lead to severe weather events. Data is collected from Earth's orbit using satellites operated by space agencies from several countries, the International Space Station (ISS), airborne observatories, flyovers using balloons, and even drones. The overall net effect, the study noted, was that from large-scale deforestation changes in local weather patterns, and over time the loss of vegetation could cause changes in climate (see Resources).
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Looking to Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest to Find Ways to Respond to the Dilemmas of the Anthropocene
In The Word for World is Forest (1972), Ursula K. Le Guin imagines a dystopian future where humans (Terrans) are faced with the task of plundering other planets for the resource they have caused the earth to be depleted of: wood. On planet Athshe, Terrans find dense forests and a peaceful population of humans, and are quick to reproduce practices founded in the dualistic logic that sets humans (culture) against nature. These practices and depictions of the earth resonate with the dilemmas of the Anthropocene, the “age of humans,” where loss in biodiversity, climate change, massive deforestation, among other things are sounding an alarm that many associate with the end of the world as we know it. Athsheans, as I demonstrate in this paper, put up a resistance to Terran practices that are grounded not in violence (although they unwillingly apply it) but in holding fast to a worldview that is nondualist and dream-based that can serve to inform us in resisting the logic that has led us to the Anthropocene in the first place.
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Towards Ecopedagogy: A Fiction-based Approach to the Teaching and Learning of the Environment
The contemporary world faces imminent environmental crises perpetrated by industrial and technological advancements, lethal warfare and neoliberal modes of development. The ecological concerns are gaining great academic attention all over the world. In this pursuit, the role of literature especially literary fiction in making visible as well as offering solutions to the escalating environmental crises cannot be overemphasized. This article, by showcasing and analyzing Uzma Aslam Khan's novel Thinner than Skin(2011) as an ecopedagogical text, explores the implications for an education system that is mindful of the changing ecological conditions and offers the students a model for encountering and solving environmental issues afflicting the ecologically-vibrant northern areas of Pakistan. The article advances an educational philosophy that, by employing literary models and by using classroom as a forum,strives to give birth to an environmental consciousness that can provoke in the studentsa better understanding of the issues plaguing the physical and the living environment, paving the way for environmental praxis. As college and university students study literary characters' interactions with the phenomena of nature, they become more aware of their own developing or deteriorating relationshipwith their physical and living environment. The paper examines how militarization and ecocidal development projects have disrupted the tranquil environment of northern Pakistan. It further explicates the rationale and repercussions of the modern neoliberal and capitalist economy by examining the following processes: material and ideological co-optation of the environment within the rhetoric of development, deforestation, erosion of grazing land, shrinking and contamination of water bodies, and the impact of tourism on environmental stability.
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