{"id":20019700,"date":"2016-07-27T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T04:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thethirdpole.net\/?p=19700"},"modified":"2021-01-03T06:05:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T00:35:34","slug":"authors-are-part-of-the-climate-change-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/authors-are-part-of-the-climate-change-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Authors are part of the climate change problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Amitav Ghosh\u2019s, \u201cThe Great Derangement\u201d, the author has asked why one of the major issues of our time \u2013 climate change \u2013 has been neglected by the literary community<\/a>. In South Asia the answer is easy to see. By catering to an urban, prosperous and global community, authors and publishers produce books that allow us to ignore the damage taking place in the lives of the marginalised. The literary community is not innocently unaware, but actively complicit in a process that allows us to ignore the damage that climate change is doing to the lives of the poor.<\/p>\n

The poor pay the costs of climate change<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let us be clear as to what \u201cthe problem\u201d is. Pollution is a classic example of market failure, where the true cost of a process is not caught in the price attached to it. The carbon dioxide generated by transport, deforestation to make way for roads, the costs of the plastic wrapping when it is disposed off, all of these are not part of the price in the cherries imported from Australia that you pick up at a grocery store.<\/p>\n

These are what economists call \u201cexternalities\u201d \u2013 costs or benefits paid by somebody who did not choose to be part of the transaction. And somebody does pay the cost of these externalities, whether it is a beautiful village in Sikkim threatened by a glacial lake or an influx of mosquitoes, or it is villagers in West Bengal suffering from arsenic poisoning. Frankly, you do not even have to go so far. The heat waves, which become more extreme every year, claim the lives of people living in the cities of South Asia all the time.<\/p>\n

See: Glacial lake threatens Sikkim\u2019s heritage village<\/a><\/p>\n

See: Photo feature: climate change worsens arsenic poisoning<\/a><\/p>\n

See: India\u2019s killer heat wave linked to climate change<\/a><\/p>\n

The striking similarity of all who pay the costs of these problems is that they are the poor, the people living in villages and the outer periphery. They are the marginal people of the countries \u2013 precisely the people that much of the literary community is not only divorced from, but is actively running away from. This is true across Asia, with very few books even touching on the subject of water.<\/p>\n

See: Water speaks in Asian literature<\/a><\/p>\n

The production of literature is measured by three main things: numbers of books sold, awards, and recognition both locally and globally through speaking activities at book festivals and the like. All of these, in one form or the other, exclude the participation of the very people most affected by climate change.<\/p>\n

The myth of an aspirational readersip<\/strong><\/p>\n

Working at one of India\u2019s most widely read news magazines, I would often be frustrated when my editor shot down one story idea or other by saying, \u201cThis is not what our readers want.\u201d In his mind, there was this mythical magazine reader that could afford to pay the INR 30 for the weekly shot of news we provided. This reader was not interested in what happened to the small town boys that became criminal dons in Bombay, nor was this interested in the lives of neglect most of India\u2019s sportsmen lived in, no matter how many awards they had won \u2013 unless they were cricketers, of course. These mythical readers were interested, though, in the new Rolls Royce just launched in India, priced at about INR 40 million, or just about USD 1 million at that time, in 2007.<\/p>\n

These mythical readers are also who the literary publishers cater to \u2013 aspirational, middle class consumers who are far more interested in wasteful spending, even if only in their imagination, than in sustainable living. The grim challenges \u2013 or even small victories such as Chhewang Norphel\u2019s artificial glaciers in Ladakh or a technological breakthrough to create a new arsenic filter \u2013 related to climate change are not the stuff of novels that publishers feel will sell. It may be that they are right, but if these stories are not commissioned, if they are not published and promoted, how will we ever cultivate the authors that can tease out the complexities of life in this increasingly fragile environment?<\/p>\n

See: The iceman of Ladakh<\/a><\/p>\n

See: Indian scientists develop low-cost arsenic filter<\/a><\/p>\n

The problem with literary awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beyond publication are the awards, and the major problem with these are that they are hardly any important ones within small countries. The \u201cbig names\u201d of Indian fiction (and many of these are Indian only in origin, not by citizenship) \u2013 whether they are Salman Rushdie, VS Naipaul, Arundhati Roy, Aravind Adiga, Jhumpa Lahiri or Amitav Ghosh himself \u2013 have largely won awards out of the country. It is hard enough to translate the difference between the poor, or the rural to the rich and urban within India, to make the jump and be able to explain these issues to a \u201cglobal\u201d audience is nigh on to impossible. It is little surprise that Naipaul is unable to explain, or even comprehend, the rural areas he describes in his \u201cArea of Darkness\u201d. Adiga\u2019s Booker Prize winning \u201cThe White Tiger\u201d, does not even try, and calls the village from which the protagonist fled merely \u201cthe darkness\u201d.<\/p>\n

Roy\u2019s and Ghosh\u2019s books have local dynamics. In particular Ghosh\u2019s earlier books such as the \u201cCalcutta Chromosome\u201d, \u201cThe Shadow Lines\u201d, and \u201cThe Hungry Tide\u201d, may pave the way to highlight the value of local dynamics, but for most new writers wishing to walk in the footsteps of the Literary Greats is to walk away, to the urban and the global. Cossetted in air-conditioned spaces which keep the rising heat at bay, they write for an audience similarly cosseted, and both ignore the slow tragedy unfolding outside.<\/p>\n

Voices in the margins<\/strong><\/p>\n

The success of one type of fiction to directly address this issue \u2013 the ironic graphic novel, \u201cAll Quiet in Vikaspuri\u201d<\/a> by Sarnath Banerjee, is the exception that proves the point. A tongue-in-cheek telling of a Delhi scarred by \u201cwater wars\u201d, as the capital of India dries out and various middle class and upper middle class housing colonies face off in combat works because of how ludicrous it seems. The residents of these colonies do not have to look for water. They can imagine a scenario of travelling kilometres for the precious liquid<\/a> only as satire.<\/p>\n

Another type of fiction, that undertaken in local languages, too shows promise. The work of Mahashweta Devi, one of the great Bengali authors, has consistently looked at the issues involving tribal communities and the marginalised poor. But even this type of literature \u2013 often called \u201cregional literature\u201d is often urban in nature, hiding the true costs of climate change playing out, in the dry fields, and the floods that hit the rural areas the worst.<\/p>\n

Literary festivals and problematic funders<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is the last refuge, that of book festivals and book launches, where authors meet a wider public (often trying to merely sell or publicise their books). These are paradoxical spaces, as they are at the intersection of the privileged and (theoretically) all the people who want to attend. While it is possible that uncomfortable questions are raised at such venues, it is also clear that such events need funds. When they turn to the very companies and enterprises responsible for polluting<\/a>, and blatant destruction of habitat, it becomes hard to believe that the platform will criticise such practices. An ode to uninhibited consumption is unlikely to lead to stories of caution and restraint.<\/p>\n

These structures incentivise the creation of a literature that discourages the exploration of the issues of climate change. They can change \u2013 just as feminist literature, once a marginal subject, became a part of mainstream literature. But they will change only when we recognise the problems, not just as the choice that individuals make, but also the incentive structures that help nudge literature in this direction. It is only then that we will be able to confront and change the terms of debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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