By James Arnott, Sarah Spengeman, Yale Climate Connections
Though fictional, the book raises a very real question: Can the human capacity to imagine alternate climate futures actually help generate new, more hopeful realities?
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Sixty years ago this year, the late great British science fiction author J. G. Ballard published his novel The Drowned World. The book is a disaster novel, one that has come to be regarded as a seminal contribution to the climate fiction genre.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
John Michael Greer’s new novel Journey Star, like his other fiction to date, delightfully resists categorization.
By Geoffreyjen Edwards, Resilience.org
I do not know if this is a book for the ages, but it is certainly a book for our own apocalyptic times.
By OreOluwa Badaki, Environmental Health News
In order to write creatively about food cultivation, climate change, and social justice, we need to understand how they operate in the world we live in. Imagining a better future, therefore, requires keen and purposeful observations of the present. It requires science.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
The Last Winter is an eco-supernatural horror film about oil workers in the Arctic who are stalked by a vengeful spirit determined to keep them from exploiting the oil. Despite this promising premise, the movie has big problems...
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
If you feel like some gritty, thrilling, eco-dystopian cinema, this currently trending cli-fi epic is available on multiple streaming platforms.
By Karen O'Brien, Ann El Khoury, Jordan Rosenfeld, Nicole Schafenacker, Resilience.org
Stories play a powerful role in transmitting personal and collective experiences. They allow us to “feel” climate change in ways that can move us emotionally and open our imagination to new possibilities. They raise our awareness not only to what is happening in the world, but to how it may be experienced by others, both now and in the future.