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The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.

‘If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world’s inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.’

The honesty and realism of Jonathan Franzen’s writings on climate have been widely denounced and just as widely celebrated. Here, in his definitive statement on the subject, Franzen confronts the world’s failure to avert destabilising climate change and takes up the question: Now what?

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Praise for The End of the End of the Earth:

‘… by refusing to hope for the impossible, Franzen, improbably, manages to produce a volume that feels, if not hopeful, then at least not hopeless. There’s nothing he can do – there’s probably nothing any of us can do – to avert or even alleviate the coming catastrophe. But for now, he’s here and he’s alive, and over the course of these essays he offers us a series of partial, tentative answers to the question he poses himself at the beginning: “ How do we find meaning in our actions when the world seems to be coming to an end?” Guardian

‘Can be read, in part, as a welcome alternative to the current, dominant American political tone of one-note belligerence’ Observer

‘Franzen shows himself to be the kind of unacademic critic who recognises and does not disapprove of the Common Reader’s natural tendency to feel for the characters the author has brought into being’ Scotsman

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Jonathan Franzen is the author of five novels, including Purity, The Corrections and Freedom, and five works of nonfiction and translation, including Farther Away and The Kraus Project. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the German Akademie der Künste, and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08F9T52KH
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fourth Estate (21 January 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1224 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 66 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0008434042

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Jonathan Franzen is the author of five novels--Purity, Freedom, The Corrections, The Twenty-Seventh City, and Strong Motion--and five works of nonfiction and translation, including Farther Away, How to Be Alone, and The Discomfort Zone, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the German Akademie der Kunste, and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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John Ironmonger

A Short (VERY short) Rant about Climate Change

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OK so this is probably my fault. I love the writing of Jonathan Franzen and rate every novel 5 stars, so when I heard he had a book out about climate change I couldn't wait. I should have done. This isn't strictly a book. It is a pamphlet with a hard cover. One quarter of the pamphlet is the foreword. Another quarter is the text of an interview with Wieland Freund. This leaves around 3,000 words for the meat of Franzen's rant. That is about ten pages of a normal Franzen novel. Was this really worth a book? Should I have saved the carbon burned in printing this book and delivering it to my door? I think perhaps I should. I don't disagree with Franzen's arguments by the way. He is a persuasive writer after all. He seeks to convince us that the battle to save the planet from climate change is lost. He's probably right. He believes that our strident campaigns to cut carbon emissions are doomed to failure, and are anyway too late. We need to manage our expectations, he says, for a world that is basically screwed. He argues for hope while dashing our hopes. But hey, carry on cutting carbon, he tells us, it can't hurt.
So there we have it. This is the kind of rant you might have heard from a man in the pub. Pithy. Well written. But it's an opinion piece - not a book. Franzen could have helped the planet by sending this out as a free email. Meanwhile I'm still waiting for the next novel. Oh well. I still love The Corrections.

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