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The wealthy are planning for apocalypse — Amitav Ghosh asks what that reveals about our future
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The Indian Express
For the novelist and essayist Amitav Ghosh, this fixation is a revealing signal of how contemporary elites are reading the planetary moment.
In his lecture – ‘Intimations of Apocalypse: Catastrophist and Gradualist Imaginings of the Planetary Future,’ delivered at BML Munjal University – Amitav Ghosh turned his attention to the imaginations of the ultra-wealthy.
(Generated using AI) In his lecture – ‘Intimations of Apocalypse: Catastrophist and Gradualist Imaginings of the Planetary Future,’ delivered at BML Munjal University – Amitav Ghosh turned his attention to the imaginations of the ultra-wealthy.
(Generated using AI)For Ghosh, what is striking is who is most invested in preparing for this possibility.
Far from an escape – for Ghosh – literature is a tool for perceiving the climate reality.