Global Disasters and Personal Responses in Ian McEwan’s Solar

Journal Title: Humanitas Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 12

Abstract

Ian McEwan’s Solar (2010) is centered around a Nobel Laureate Professor of Physics whose peak of academic achievement is thirty years behind him, who is trying to retrieve his reputation by proposing replacement of coal and fossil fuel use by solar power and a planet whose heyday as a nurturing haven for human species is but a fantasy. The protagonist’s conspicuous consumption of romantic entanglements also mirrors the daily routines of billions of human beings in overconsumption of commodities and non-renewable planetary resources. His one original contribution is his almost instinctive response to another major factor in climate change: overpopulation. I will focus on our failure to maintain foresight for imminent antropogenic disasters as human species as well as overpopulation as a neglected cause for such disasters, even in Solar, since the solution to overpopulation involves a counterintutive measure: not to have children.

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  • EP ID EP427217
  • DOI 10.20304/humanitas.374930
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(2018). Global Disasters and Personal Responses in Ian McEwan’s Solar. Humanitas Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 6(12), 1-9. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-427217