Climate Change Repercussions and Response

Ghosh's purpose in The Great Derangement is to suggest some of the reasons as to why climate change is not being adequately addressed by world leaders, artists and writers, or people on an individual level. As he explains, we have already begun to see the effects of climate change, and some of those effects have been disastrous. One would think that this would be an issue of the most pressing concern among every nation in the world, but leaders have made little progress other than the largely empty pomp and circumstance of the 2015 Paris Agreement, and even politically involved individuals have little power to do anything to remedy the situation on their own.

Several major storms of the 21st century are mentioned throughout the text as examples of the repercussions humanity is already contending with, and Ghosh points out that even these disasters seem...