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Do you remember being a kid and learning about the environment and how interconnected everything was?

How, I don't know, bees spreading pollen was in some way related to your breakfast that morning?

It's one of those facts of life that's mind-blowing when we learn about it.

But I'm not sure how many adults spend their day-to-day thinking about the ecosystem, but maybe we should be.

Amitav Ghosh's new essay collection is titled Wild Fictions, Essays on Literature, Empire, and

The Environment.

In the book, he talks about everything from migration patterns to 9-11

to the Indian Ocean. He talks to NPR Scott Simon about how we are responsible for caring

for the entities around us because we are dependent on their survival after the break.

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A new book asks among many provocative questions, is the elevation of human above all other species,

indeed above the earth itself responsible for many of Earth's problems?

Amitav Ghosh, the Indian Bengali writer, whom Foreign Policy Magazine, is named,

one of today's most important

global thinkers, has collected some of his most striking essays from over the past 25 years.

His collection is called Wild Fictions, essays on literature, empire, and the environment,

and Amitov Ghosh joins us from the studios of member station WVTF in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Thanks so much for being with us.

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