creative writing on environmental justice
Why don’t these people stop having babies
during a war, under the air strike?
—A comment under the video
In other words, why don’t they
stand at their windows,
watch the offerings of fire
falling from the sky,
This issue of Reckoning is devoted to works about war and conflict viewed through the lens of environmental justice. What is seen through that lens is, by turns, grim and hopeful.
It is through writing that we remember freedom, as Le Guin puts it. Writers are capable of probing into the heart of the crises of our time: extinction, genocide, climate catastrophe. . . .