Yet, it’s a field that almost uniquely remains focused on the imagination, of “what if” scenarios and running those contexts to their narrative conclusions. That makes them easy fodder for climate fiction (“cli-fi”) novels or even video games like Final Fantasy VII, a stream of work that has accelerated much in the way that carbon has in the atmosphere. Then there’s the much darker category of dystopia.ĭystopic visions of the future are engaging precisely because they are visions. There are the histories that look at missed opportunities, and the geological histories that show what our world was really like over the eons. There are the policy and tech analyses that splay out options for the future, deliberating tradeoffs and offering guidance to individuals and governments on their decisions. There are the field guides and observational accounts that chronicle the destruction of our world and make it legible for readers worldwide. Books on climate change, as diverse as the library is, tend to fall into a couple of categories.
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