![]() Therefore literature is an important source in understanding humans’ place in the Anthropocene. Environmental literature is influenced by and responds to the cultures and societies that have effected these failed responses but can also encourage thinking beyond the limits that societal discourse entails. As scientific research into climate change across the globe has presented ever more pessimistic scenarios, the international community, national governments, and individuals alike have failed consistently to take decisive action to address these issues. Environmental literature such as the texts explored here can both indicate and effect greater awareness of the troubled human relationship with our environment, at least on an individual level. ![]() The literary texts selected, besides engaging with the Wadden Sea, meet fully or in part Lawrence Buell’s “rough checklist” for what constitutes an environmental text, in that the physical setting is intrinsic to the story they tell human interests are not the only legitimate ones there is a sense of human accountability to the environment and they convey a sense of processuality, of the history and future of the non-human environment (Buell, 1995, 7).
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