Amitav Ghosh: How visions of catastrophe shape the ‘climate solutions’ imposed by aid agencies

Amitav Ghosh at Equator: I came of age as a reader in the 1970s, when apocalyptic fiction was much in vogue because of intensifying nuclear anxieties. As a teenager, I devoured books set in the aftermath of an atomic catastrophe, like Nevil Shute’s On the Beach and John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids.