Summary

In Section 3, Ghosh quotes British economist John Maynard Keynes, who claimed that “by the working of natural laws individuals pursuing their own interests with enlightenment, in condition of freedom, always tend to promote the general interest at the same time” (134). Ghosh sees the lack of action to combat the effects of climate change as a refutation of that notion, and reiterates his contention that making progress on this issue will require a collective global effort. He states that we need “to find a way out of the individualizing imaginary in which we are trapped” (135), and that artists and writers must contribute to that imaginative change.

In Section 4, Ghosh considers how climate change is seen in the Anglosphere (the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand) as a polarizing issue, with denialists on one pole and climate activists on the other...