The Days of Winter Unwinding 2006-2007 A Realization of Climate and the Sprouting of Literaturization

The Days of Winter Unwinding 2006-2007 A Realization of Climate and the Sprouting of Literaturization

In the winter of 2006-2007, people in various parts of Japan voiced their concerns about "December being strange" and "20 degrees Celsius even though it is winter," sharing a sense of the abnormal weather. In Tokyo, it became spring-like in the middle of winter, and in New York, 22 degrees Celsius was recorded in January, among other events that disrupted people's sense of the seasons. News reports and columns at this time narrated changes in the climate not through temperature data but through experiences and cityscapes, creating a new style of writing that "captures the crisis from a real sense of reality. This was a turning point in the development of environmental thought into literary expression, a trend that would later lead to "climate emotions. Here we see an attempt to understand the climate crisis not in terms of numbers, but in terms of breathing and air quality. The sensation of the contours of winter unraveling marked the beginning of an attempt to talk about env
ironmental change through human emotions, and symbolized the signs of an age in which we express the crisis in the language of daily life.