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4 days ago · In mainstream fiction, though, climate change took a long time to appear. In 2016, the novelist Amitav Ghosh observed in his book The Great Derangement: Climate Change and The Unthinkable that “it is a striking fact that when novelists do choose to write about climate change, it is almost always outside of fiction.”
4 days ago · How Science Fiction Can Inspire Climate Activism. Climate change is, by far, the biggest story of our era, an existential threat that has already profoundly affected life on Earth and promises to ...
4 days ago · Summary. In the 21st century, a new genre of Anglophone fiction has emerged—the climate change novel, often abbreviated as “cli-fi.” Many successful authors of literary fiction, such as Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, T. C. Boyle, Michael Crichton, Ian McEwan, Amitav Ghosh, Barbara Kingsolver, Ursula Le Guin, Lydia Millet, David Mitchell, Ruth Ozeki, Nathaniel Rich, Kim Stanley ...
4 days ago · Synopsis [ edit] An Inconvenient Truth presents in film form an illustrated talk on climate by Al Gore, aimed at alerting the public to an increasing "planetary emergency" due to global warming, and shows re-enacted incidents from his life story which influenced his concerns about environmental issues.
Jun 12, 2024 · But how are these myths propagated in the first place, and why are they more believable than the facts? In the case of climate change, the answer largely lies in the ability of well-funded fossil...
Jun 17, 2024 · Is it climate change? When people burn carbon – whether it’s coal in a power plant or gasoline in a vehicle – it creates carbon dioxide (CO 2). This invisible gas builds up in the atmosphere ...
Jun 11, 2024 · Fiction that explores issues of climate change is growing at an unprecedented rate today, says the journalist who coined the phrase ‘cli-fi’, Dan Bloom. Here, he picks the five best books of the field, and introduces us to a globally important, underexplored literary genre.
