Climate Crisis and Political Discourse: A Study based on Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement: the Climate Change and the Unthinkable

Amitav Ghosh may be considered as the Prophet of our era because prophets are people who can accurately read the signs of the times. This paper on “Climate Crisis and Political Discourse: A Study based on Amitav Ghosh's ‘The Great Derangement: the Climate Change and the Unthinkable ’“ (2016) attempts to grasp Ghosh's treatment of the complexity and urgency of the subject of climate change crisis from the perspective of political discourse. This paper contextualises Ghosh's scholarly treatment of the subject on the construction of our modern sense of freedom rooted in the three main schools of continental philosophy. Philosophers of freedom were mainly concerned with the snares of injustice foisted on man by other human and human-made systems through the violation of the norms of distributive justice, procedural justice, or human rights. However, freedom from the shackles of environment is one aspect of freedom that merits special attention of historians because human history is dominated by tales of war of man against man and man against nature. However this distinction ends for man's war against nature is man's war against himself leading to his own annihilation. This article just tries to recapture briefly what Ghosh has so brilliantly elucidated in about a hundred pages of the book on the pressing issues that concern humanity on climate crisis.