Deprivation of Ethics after Climate Change: An Eco-apocalyptic Reading on McCarthy’s The Road

Abstract

Eco-apocalypse is considered a literary theme that deals with the consequences of the environmental crisis. As eradication occurs in the ecosystem due to human activities, the cycle of the ecosystem has been altered. This alteration brings environmental issues such as climate change and global warming. Climate change changes the cycle of ecosystems that cause apocalyptic destruction to biodiversity. Since climate change (eco-apocalypse) is an inevitable threat to the future world, the questions of what are the physical, psychological, and civil challenges during the apocalypse and what are the possibilities to cope with them are to be discussed. Eco-apocalypse steers the world into environmental and psychological conflicts. The purviews of the research paper are to exhibit the differentiation between regional and global eco-apocalypse and portray characteristics of man during the eco-apocalypse. Climate Fiction massively depicts the world where humans would lose their humanity and ethics because of climate change. Moreover, the research paper aims to provide awareness of the existing eco-apocalypse era and predict the physical and psychological conflicts of man. Hence, the paper displays the unethical world through McCarthy’s The Road.