Canadian climate change literature timeline
Date
2025
Authors
Hatch, William
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University of Victoria
Abstract
My Canadian climate change literature timeline is an ongoing website project which features a compilation of poems and short stories relating to one or more of 25 climate topics. Common topics include: forest fires, species protection, and pollution. My research involves reading through prominent Canadian literary magazines, citing relevant texts and noting their relevance, then contacting authors to request permission to link copies of the relevant works to the website. The literary works are organized by year and are contextualized with information and imagery I collect about positive and negative climate events. Events include: UN climate conferences, major natural disasters, climate-related political decisions, and fluctuations in global indicators of climate change like Arctic minimum sea ice extent and Co2 PPM (parts per million). The website is designed for the use of high school teachers and students and includes descriptions of suggested exercises. My hope is that the literature on the timeline will provide Canadian students a humanizing understanding of the overwhelming and frightening concept of climate change.
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website, poems, short stories, climate, timeline, Canada