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Anthropocene

This term is frequently used in literary, cultural, and scholarly works to describe the modern era of life on Earth as it relates to climate change.

Gradualism

This term is used in geology to describe the theory that Earth's evolution has been a slow and moderate process.

Realism

This literary genre focuses on authentic and natural events rather than the large-scale, disastrous weather events that might serve as depictions of climate change.

Sundarbans

This setting is a forested area located in a delta of the Bay of Bengal. Ghosh describes this setting in Part I, Section 8 of the text as part of his discussion of human awareness of nonhuman consciousness.

The Nicobars

This setting is described in Part I, Section 9, when the author describes visiting after a tsunami there in 2004.

Mumbai

This setting is India's largest and most densely populated city, located on the country's west coast...

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