Caricatures of a crisis

Book review of Green Humour for a Greying Planet

Climate change is the biggest challenge humankind is facing today, eclipsing even the Covid-19 pandemic. Species going extinct every day, polar ice melting and sea levels rising — the planet is greying in front of our eyes. In the midst of all this doom and gloom, Rohan Chakravarty, a dentist by profession and an artist by passion, has used a unique tool to raise awareness about climate change and animal conservation — humour. 

Green Humour for a Greying Planet is a compilation of Mr Chakravarty’s 200 cartoons on a variety of issues: Ecology, conservation, sustainability, wildlife biology, and even Covid-19. Published