In the last few years, human induced climate change has emerged as a significant theme in literature and also literary studies. It has gained popularity in the recent years in fiction and non-fiction giving rise to a new genre of literature called ‘cli-fi’, or climate change fiction. The genre of cli-fi gained momentum in the mid of 2000s when the critics started questioning as to why authors and artists in general are not actively speaking on human induced climate change. Thus, slowly many plays, short stories, poems and children’s stories based on the themes of human induced climate change were actually composed with the hope that it might lead to a wider climate consciousness and thereby contribute to more progressive environmental policies and politics. This paper aims at reading Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016) as a text that is more of a warning of an impending apocalypse, that it’s time to understand the ramifications of large scale destruction of Nature and Ecosystem. It will also deal with an analysis of the text and how it successfully draws our attention towards urgent issues by reflecting on our culture, politics, society and the economic structures.

Climate change fiction, cli-fi, Eco-criticism, Global warming, Culture