Document Type
Lesson Plan
Publication Date
Spring 2024
Abstract
The current climate crisis can be a daunting, anxiety-provoking topic. Terms such as “climate anxiety” are brought up because thinking about the prospect of future warming can cause extreme dread. Our current trajectory has even pushed people to forgo having children. Yet although this dread is very warranted and cannot be minimized, simply fearing for the future does not present any solutions to improving it. Ecopoetry can give us a window into helping deal with our grief, and can also suggest solutions for moving forward. This anthology presents poems that do both, helping us to better understand our current era in time, the Anthropocene.
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Monica Kramer , '25 and Peter Schmidt.
(2024).
"Understanding The Anthropocene".
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-english-lit/411
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Developed by a Swarthmore College student, Monica Kramer, with feedback from Professor Peter Schmidt, as a final assignment in English 71E/Environmental Studies 041, "Ecopoetry and the Climate Crisis," spring 2024.