Imagining the Future of Climate Change - World-Making through Science Fiction and ActivismPaperback
Imagining the Future of Climate Change - World-Making through Science Fiction and ActivismPaperback From the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the…
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Imagining the Future of Climate Change - World-Making through Science Fiction and ActivismPaperback
From the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the consequences of climate change and its impacts on our future. As public awareness of climate change has grown, so has the popularity of works of climate fiction that connect science with activism.Today, real-world social movements helmed by Indigenous people and people of color are leading the way against the greatest threat to our environment: the fossil fuel industry. Authors such as Octavia Butler and Leslie Marmon Silko, movie directors such as Bong Joon-Ho, and creators of digital media such as the makers of the Maori web series Anamata Future News have all envisioned future worlds during and after environmental collapse, engaging audiences to think about the earth's sustainability.
Their stories and movements--in the real world and through science fiction--help us