Anthropocene Storytelling: Homecoming or far from home?

The collapse of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier—forecast to occur before the end of the decade—could raise global sea level by three metres. The grounding line, eroded by currents of warm water, is arguable the most important place on Earth right now, yet it lies a kilometre beneath the ice’s surface and 7,000 kilometres from the nearest human settlement.

Thwaites shows that we need stories that reveal what is happening far from where humans live, but in places where humans are highly active. Drawing on recent trends in environmental literature and on my own experience in writing about what legacies we are leaving for the very deep future (in Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils), in this talk I will explore the challenges of telling Anthropocene stories.

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