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Jan 15, 2019 · Can imagined futures of drowned cities and solar utopias help us grasp the complexity of climate change? Diego Arguedas Ortiz takes a look.
Jan 2, 2023 · 10 fiction books worth reading that imagine what climate change could look like. Paola Rosa-Aquino. Jan 2, 2023, 12:13 PM PST. What climate change could look like is fodder for science...
- Paola Rosa-Aquino
- The Power of Storytelling
- A Geoengineered Planet
- Transforming Planets
- Lessons from Fiction For The Future
Proposals for geoengineering and terraforming are informed both by history and by the stories we tell one another. What science fiction can do is imagine and think through the political, as well as the scientific, implications of the technological choices we make. Science fiction stories speculate on, diagnose and illustrate the experiences and the...
In the real – policy – world, fictions inform the imagination. Some imagine a future world covered by machinessucking CO₂ out of the air and pumping it into the porous rock below. Others imagine one powered by a portfolio of vast wind and solar farms, hydroelectric and geothermal plants. Some imagine business largely continuing as usual, with only ...
But what can terraforming tell us about geoengineering and Earth? The idea of transforming places beyond Earth – planets or other spatial bodies – to make them more amenable to human life has been a mainstay of science fiction for decades. The necessity of maintaining life support systems in space habitats and spaceships draws on the same science t...
I’ve focused here on the ideas of geoengineering and terraforming because they represent the most outlandish theories or proposals when it comes to potential “solutions” to the climate crisis. But of course, everything I’ve written applies just as much to thinking about less grandiose proposals. The questions and speculations offered by science fic...
The genre frequently includes science fiction and dystopian or utopian themes, imagining the potential futures based on how humanity responds to the impacts of climate change. Climate fiction typically involves anthropogenic climate change and other
Jan 7, 2022 · Floods, record-breaking heat waves and forest fires brought climate change close to home for many Canadians in 2021 — and that includes authors, some of whom have begun weaving climate themes...
Feb 15, 2024 · Exploring the connections between science fiction and climate change. Last month, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson spoke at the David Brower Center about weaving themes from ecological sustainability and social justice into science fiction.
Climate fiction is a vital tool for producing better planetary futures. Not only does fiction offer a powerful medium to explore hopes and fears about climate change and imagine potential solutions, it also provides a means to broaden the range of voices roadmapping a way forward.
