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• W4387397787 abstract "Reflections on Anthropocene Futures Lawrence Buell (bio) The 2010s will go down in intellectual history as the decade when the environmental humanities belatedly awoke to the realization of global overheating as the crisis par excellence to which all others are to be subordinated or referred. The awakening has been a joyless one despite the brilliance of the best intellectual work, some of it in these pages, that has parsed and propagated it. How can one be enthusiastic about a train wreck that “we” have engineered yet seem powerless to stop? If, as I suspect, Anthropocene anxiety is more responsible than any other factor for mainstreaming environmental concerns in humanities research and teaching, how much satisfaction can be taken in that? Perhaps not even the mordant relish of geoengineering researchers, who seem assured of a professional lifetime of support for their project even as they discourse about it with a shudder and question whether the Strangelovian technology should ever be implemented. I’ve no way of knowing what fraction of environmental humanists might be described as net beneficiaries of global warming. But I know that I myself am existentially, as well as professionally, living in a place so far unplagued by serious threats of drought, fire, and flood whose warm season—my favorite—has been extended by almost a month at both ends during the last century. Contentment with the habitat that has come to seem quite like the felicitous mid-Atlantic baseline where I grew up makes it all the more tempting to internalize the slow-moving disaster of climate change as a theoretical or spectatorial rather than a lived reality. If there’s anything the COVID-19 crisis has to teach environmental humanists about likely future human response to climate crisis, it’s that [End Page 8] for anxiety to convert to decisive, game-changing action, a substantial portion of the rich world must feel itself to be in immediate danger; and even then a goodly fraction of otherwise intelligent people may buy distorted versions of the truth, and justice may not be done to the dis-empowered. A less obvious but no less important lesson is the corroboration of the deep history perspective, the exfoliation of which has been one of Anthropocene Age scholarship’s most valuable contributions. For all the technopower they wield over Earth’s environment, especially since the so-called Great Acceleration of the mid-twentieth century, humans are a belated and entangled bit of the much longer history of planetary life that is sure to continue for millions of years more, whether or not humanity does. Can these humbling realizations be understood more positively as challenges, even opportunities? I hope so—that global warming might be pervasively dramatized as a crisis of public health affecting the welfare of all humans that demands interspecies-responsive as well as intersocially-responsive countermeasures. It may even be that the necessary revolutions in the sense of ethical accountability to other tribes, other lifeforms, are well underway despite such contemporary atavisms as institutional racism and factory farms. By the same token, serious remediation is likely to happen in fits and starts rather than suddenly, to take many decades if not centuries, and not decisively until most masters of the universe and the corporations of the world they collectively control feel themselves as embattled as the citizens of low-lying island nations do now. [End Page 9] Lawrence Buell Lawrence Buell is a Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature, Emeritus at Harvard. He has written and lectured worldwide on the environmental humanities, on American fiction, and on the American Transcendentalists. His books include The Environmental Imagination (1995), Writing for an Endangered World (2001), The Future of Environmental Criticism (2005), and The Dream of the Great American Novel (2014). He has held fellowships from the Mellon and Guggenheim foundations and (twice) from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2007 he received the Modern Language Association’s Jay Hubbell Award for lifetime contributions to American literature scholarship. In 2008 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Copyright © 2023 University of Nebraska Press" @default.
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