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In \u003ci\u003eLiterature for a Changing Planet\u003c\/i\u003e, Martin Puchner ranges across four thousand years of world literature to draw vital lessons about how we put ourselves on the path of climate change—and how we might change paths before it's too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eEpic of Gilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e and the West African \u003ci\u003eEpic of Sunjata\u003c\/i\u003e to the \u003ci\u003eCommunist Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e, Puchner reveals world literature in a new light—as an archive of environmental exploitation and a product of a way of life responsible for climate change. Literature depends on millennia of intensive agriculture, urbanisation, and resource extraction, from the clay of ancient tablets to the silicon of e-readers. Yet literature also offers powerful ways to change attitudes toward the environment. 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