Yanan Shi
Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, Henan, China.
*Corresponding author: Yanan Shi
Abstract
American author Paul Bacigalupi’s work Ship Breaker won the Printz Literary Prize in one fell swoop. The book is rampant with the embodiment and proof of ecological consciousness. The text of Ship Breaker presents an ecological imbalance in terms of natural ecology, social ecology, and spiritual ecology, as well as a critique of industrial civilisation, which together form a shapely eco-literary landscape. The author takes Richard Lopez's spiritual transformation as a perfect embodiment of a spiritual ecological crisis, and at the same time expresses the difficulty of surviving spiritual beliefs in a social-ecological crisis. This paper will further explore the writer Paul Bacigalupi’s ecological humanism from the relationship between human and nature, human and society, and human and self. Paul Bacigalupi argues that the main root cause of the spiritual and ecological crisis is the Western capitalist civilisation and system, and combines this with the community of human destiny to show the Chinese solution to ecologically sustainable development.
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How to cite this paper
The Ecological Crisis of Ship Breaker and the Chinese Solution
How to cite this paper: Yanan Shi. (2024) The Ecological Crisis of Ship Breaker and the Chinese Solution. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, 8(6), 1360-1364.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2024.06.008