In her article, “Apocalypse and Ecotopia: Narratives in Global Climate Change Disclosure” Janet Fiskio claims that in order to perceive the Anthropocene entirely “we need to examine the aesthetic and narrative modes expressed through cultural productions for their relationships to the dimensions of race, gender, class, ability [,] and nation” (p. 13). As Fiskio suggests, narratives play a substantial role in highlighting how the social factors are crucial in bringing forth the awareness about the Anthropocene and the different ways through which it influences them. Climate change and hazards usually create more inequality among different racial groups, classes, and genders (socially oppressed and socially dominant). The inequalities mentioned
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Next, Buckell and Schroeder demonstrate the racism of the present world and how the climate change effects differently to various races. Lastly, DeLancey validates the inequality in classes when a disaster occurs and exposes how adequately the elites are able to protect themselves from the calamities. Through the analysis of this content, a coherent association is uncovered between the Anthropocene and social factors like race, class, and gender.
Wyndham illustrates human’s indistinguishable behavioral patterns with nature through the conflict between the visually impaired and sighted people and stereotyping of the gender roles. In the novel “Day of the Triffids”, when the main character Bill and Josella reached into the university community and interact with the community it is noticeably evident that the sighted people disregarded the blind people and thought of themselves as a superior class. Even when Coker captured Bill, all Bill could comprehend was that for the sighted, the blinds were not human and they had no right to the resources they …show more content…
In “Racing the Tide”, the authority provides to Tara, who was the mayor of the town that was sinking due to rising water levels, to give the tie-breaking vote, which she took in her favour because she had the privilege to make the life of her loved ones better. Tara’s conversation with Ms. Lucy, who works in municipal filing projects gives the clearest indication of the privileges that upper-class people get. Tara clearly asks for money to fill up the land with an additional amount of sand to prolong its drowning. She demanded, “The same number that the doctor had quoted her for Tommy’s treatment” (LUTW p. 448). Rather than getting the residents of the town a new house somewhere safer, they are making the land higher and delaying the drowning of the town. Unlike, people from countries like Bangladesh who are unable to cope up with hazards. Tara’s decision reveals how she was selfish and as an elite she was able to avoid the dreadful aftermath of calamities. The inequality between classes and upper class’s ability to avoid environmental catastrophes acknowledges the link between social components and the
Next, Buckell and Schroeder demonstrate the racism of the present world and how the climate change effects differently to various races. Lastly, DeLancey validates the inequality in classes when a disaster occurs and exposes how adequately the elites are able to protect themselves from the calamities. Through the analysis of this content, a coherent association is uncovered between the Anthropocene and social factors like race, class, and gender.
Wyndham illustrates human’s indistinguishable behavioral patterns with nature through the conflict between the visually impaired and sighted people and stereotyping of the gender roles. In the novel “Day of the Triffids”, when the main character Bill and Josella reached into the university community and interact with the community it is noticeably evident that the sighted people disregarded the blind people and thought of themselves as a superior class. Even when Coker captured Bill, all Bill could comprehend was that for the sighted, the blinds were not human and they had no right to the resources they …show more content…
In “Racing the Tide”, the authority provides to Tara, who was the mayor of the town that was sinking due to rising water levels, to give the tie-breaking vote, which she took in her favour because she had the privilege to make the life of her loved ones better. Tara’s conversation with Ms. Lucy, who works in municipal filing projects gives the clearest indication of the privileges that upper-class people get. Tara clearly asks for money to fill up the land with an additional amount of sand to prolong its drowning. She demanded, “The same number that the doctor had quoted her for Tommy’s treatment” (LUTW p. 448). Rather than getting the residents of the town a new house somewhere safer, they are making the land higher and delaying the drowning of the town. Unlike, people from countries like Bangladesh who are unable to cope up with hazards. Tara’s decision reveals how she was selfish and as an elite she was able to avoid the dreadful aftermath of calamities. The inequality between classes and upper class’s ability to avoid environmental catastrophes acknowledges the link between social components and the