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Why Penguin Classics are going Green

Uncanny and Improbable Events

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. 
 
In this personal and wide-ranging exploration of how our collective imaginations fail to grasp the scale of environmental destruction, Amitav Ghosh summons writers and novelists to confront the most urgent story of our times. 
 
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.

Amitav Ghosh (b. 1956) is an award-winning novelist and critic whose works have illuminated the shortcomings of prevailing cultural narratives about the climate crisis.

Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their words have endured, becoming the classics that define the environmental movement today. 
 
In this personal and wide-ranging exploration of how our collective imaginations fail to grasp the scale of environmental destruction, Amitav Ghosh summons writers and novelists to confront the most urgent story of our times.

Greta Thunberg

Naomi Klein

Timothy Morton

George Monbiot

Bill McKibben

Amitav Ghosh

Tim Flannery

Terry Tempest Williams

Michael Pollan

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Dai Qing

Wangari Maathai

Jared Diamond

Wendell Berry

Edward O. Wilson

James Lovelock

Masanobu Fukuoka

Arne Næss

Rachel Carson

Aldo Leopold

Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their words have endured, becoming the classics that define the environmental movement today. 
 
From art, literature, food and gardening, to technology, economics, politics and ethics, each of these short books deepens our sense of our place in nature; each is a seed from which a bold activism can grow. Together, they show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.

Amitav Ghosh

Books by Amitav Ghosh

Articles featuring Amitav Ghosh

Why Penguin Classics are going Green

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