In 2009, Margaret Atwood published an article on the topic of “peak oil” in the German newspaper Die Zeit. The article was entitled “The Future Without Oil.” In 2015, Atwood revisited the topic, and her article, by writing about both. This article, entitled “It’s Not Climate Change–It’s Everything Change,” was published first in the Norwegian online magazine Samtiden and later, as a multimedia essay, by the American online magazine Medium.com .
Atwood’s article is not only an important reflection on the topic of climate change and global initiatives (or lack thereof) related to the issues involved with it from 2009-2015, it is also a fascinating artifact documenting the processes by which writers work and projects get published.
If you are looking for timely, thesis-based argumentative, research-based essay to teach, you may want to include this on in your Spring, 2017 course.
