Climate Change and Global Warming - P. Loganathan. - Bog

Human life is not only dependent on nature but also imagining, comparing and creating things as it
exists in nature. What he has found and finds in nature is rhapsodic that one reads a lot of
metaphors, and similes in literature. Although human beings are blessed with intelligence and the
sixth sense, whatever man sees in nature is more beautiful and powerful than what he invents or
creates. Thus nature serves as a source of human imagination and invention and man cannot refrain
from glorifying it in life and literature. Ancient literature has described the wild life also. But
the development of science and technology has gradually shrunk the space of nature.
Meadows and pastures have disappeared; forests have receded, and rivers have dried out. The
waterfalls have thinned to nothing. Ponds with flowers like lotus and fishes have been swallowed.
The concrete structures have conquered all these marvellous creations of nature. The hazardous
chemicals have been mixed in water, water resources, and soil. It has also risen up to cause
pollution in air and atmosphere in the form of fumes, smokes and gases. When it has become a threat
to human life man has started talking about environmental pollution. It has its impacts in
literature also. The writers have started to write about nature oriented and environment related
impacts of human action.
The present day literature branches out in different genres. Writers focus on ecological themes
dealing with the harm done to the environment and polluting the elements of nature. These themes
deal with the environmental damage caused by human beings and its impact as a reverse action in
human life and all other living beings. Writers have also taken a step forward to observe the
changing climatic conditions which deprive the possibilities of living in the already civilised
places and regions. It has opened a new avenue of literature and criticism that alludes to
changing climate fiction and criticism and global warming. Before discussing the subject of climate
and climate fiction it is necessary to study the history of climate which geologists and scientists have researched.