Starting from the premise that the personal is planetary and that the planet has changed irrevocably, this collection of essays considers the climate crisis from the perspective of the individual.
Author Archives: Donald Wright
Donald Wright, PhD, teaches the politics of climate change at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in Fredericton, the capital city of the Canadian province of New Brunswick. He has written on climate change in The Globe and Mail, The Literary Review of Canada, The Network in Canadian History and Environment, and for CBC.ca. He is especially interested in climate books and podcasts, and in how climate change is communicated in both non-fiction and fiction.
Don earned his BA from Mount Allison University, his MA from McGill University, and his PhD in Canadian history from the University of Ottawa. In 1998 he was a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of History at New York University.
He is the author of several books, including Canada: A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press in 2020. He currently is writing a book about the late Canadian historian Ramsay Cook.
Don is an avid fan of trail running in warmer months, of cross-country skiing in colder months, and of climate podcasts year long.
