And as climate change makes superstorms, flooding, wildfires and droughts more likely, a new genre is gaining fatalistic fans the world over: climate fiction or “cli-fi.”“It’s catching on like wildfire,” said US writer and cli-fi aficionado Dan Bloom. “There’s a lot of people who say that climate change is not real,” said Bloom. For J.R. Burgmann, co-author of Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Socio logical Approach, cli-fi films and novels are a logical expression of an increasingly knowledgeable and concerned society. “People are more and more worried about climate change and authors write about what scares them,” Lunde told Agence France-Presse last year. ‘Hard to ignore’Novels and films about climate change are nothing new, of course.

Source: Manila Times November 16, 2019 16:18 UTC