This parallel between individual overeating and global overheating is a central trope for Ian McEwan’s novel Solar (2010). The increasingly overweight protagonist is called “the expanding universe” at one point.
This parallel between individual overeating and global overheating is a central trope for Ian McEwan’s novel Solar (2010). The increasingly overweight protagonist is called “the expanding universe” at one point.
Here’s a mural they recently made in Mainz, Germany, in memory of Paul Crutzen, who popularized the term ‘anthropocene’.