An Environmental Writing Competition of the Rachel Carson Center
Stories about our world today are often negative, focusing on environmental crises, increasing displacement, and violence. Ever more disconnected from each other and the environment that sustains us, we seem to tread an irreversible path. How, then, could more positive futures come about? Perhaps from acknowledging the past, and perhaps from rethinking the role of storytelling and the nonhuman, as Indian novelist and thinker Amitav Ghosh has suggested in several of his fiction and nonfiction books, like Gun Island and The Nutmeg’s Curse. The above quote suggests that the connection between storytelling and animality can provide inspiration in the creative process of imagining alternative (and potentially more hopeful) pasts, presents, and futures.
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