Can Morality Survive Climate Collapse?

Can Morality Survive Climate Collapse?

In the opening lines of her latest novel A Guardian and a Thief, Megha Majumdar drops us directly in the path of the incipient climate catastrophe: “Kolkata in this ruined year, the heat a hand clamped upon the mouth, the sun a pistol against one’s head.” It’s a near-future where rising temperatures haven’t quite pushed society past its tipping point, but the oncoming disaster is already felt in the form of food scarcity, wet bulb heatwaves, and…