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In the 1960s, few people realized the level of climate catastrophe that could be caused by the amount of carbon emissions released in a single lifetime. ![]() ![]() In the 1950s, everyone assumed that cars would be flying. This slippage from one word to another makes me realize that we as human beings still have a poor relationship with the events of the future. ![]() ![]() If there is one word that accurately sums up what is so ominous about the beginnings of Tokarczuk’s recently translated novel into English, it would be “portent.” Even the act of defining the beginning of the book happened to use the word “ominous,” which is in fact a synonym.
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