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Signs and wonders / Delia Falconer.

Signs and wonders / Delia Falconer.
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ISBN 9781760857820
Author Falconer, Delia (author)
Title Signs and wonders / Delia Falconer.
Cover title Signs and wonders : dispatches from a time of beauty and loss
Publisher and/or associated date/s Cammeray, NSW : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Australia, 2021.
©2021.
Description 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show that our emotions, our art, our relationships with the generations around us -- all the delicate networks that make us who we are -- have already been transformed. In Signs and Wonders, Falconer explores how it feels to live as a reader, a writer, a lover of nature and a mother of small children in an era of profound ecological change. Building on Falconer's two acclaimed essays, 'Signs and Wonders' and the Walkley Award-winning 'The Opposite of Glamour', Signs and Wonders is a pioneering examination of how we are changing our culture, language and imaginations along with our climate. Is a mammoth emerging from the permafrost beautiful or terrifying? How is our imagination affected when something that used to be ordinary -- like a car windscreen smeared with insects -- becomes unimaginable? What can the disappearance of the paragraph from much contemporary writing tell us about what's happening in the modern mind? Scientists write about a 'great acceleration' in human impact on the natural world. Signs and Wonders shows that we are also in a period of profound cultural acceleration, which is just as dynamic, strange, extreme and, sometimes, beautiful. Ranging from an 'unnatural' history of coal to the effect of a large fur seal turning up in the park below her apartment, this book is a searching and poetic examination of the ways we are thinking about how, and why, to live now.
Subjects Essays
Social change -- Australia
Social prediction -- Australia
Future, The
Global warming
Climate change mitigation
Call number 2021.214
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