by Ryan Harding
Admittedly, against a cultural backdrop in which apocalyptic narratives have considerable purchase, and have become somewhat of a cultural curiosity, the prospect that an actual global catastrophe might go relatively unnoticed, seems somewhat preposterous. In truth, although at the moment the issue of climate change may not seem as culturally galvanizing or captivating as, say, the Maya 2012 prediction, considerable research and attention—both popular and scholarly—has indeed been paid to the defining problem of our era. All of this attention, and the groundswells that have followed each spike in interest in climate change, have yet to be translated into a meaningful, coherent global, or even national movement, however.… Read the rest
