The environmental humanities scholar Rob Nixon articulates the political dimensions and policy related implications of this challenge: "A central question is stra tegic and representational: How can we convert into image and narrative the disasters that are slow moving and long in the mak ing, disasters that are anonymous and that star nobody, disasters that are attritional and of indifferent interest to the sensation driven technologies of our image-world? How can we turn the long emergencies of slow violence into stories dramatic enough to rouse public sentiment and warrant political interventions, these emer gencies whose repercussions have given rise to some of the most critical challenges of our time?"13