Climate Scientist Tries Arts To Stir Hearts Regarding Earth's Fate
http://www.npr.org/2015/02/16/386064582/climate-scientist-tries-arts-to-stir-hearts-regarding-earths-fate
A Friday post.
Cli-Fi is "climate fiction" a relatively new (though it actually extends back to the mid-20th century) sub-genre of science fiction or other speculative fiction. It is manifesting in literature, film and TV.
An interesting, well acted little film i saw on Netflix recently called Young Ones ( trailer) is rather clever. Essentially it is a western/revenge/family type drama set in the rural southwestern or southern great Plains state a few decades from now.
It would actually be a good choice for another very good cli-fi plus film, Sleep Dealer, ( trailer ).
A couple of the best books I have read in the genre.
Solar by Ian McEwan (2010)
"It is a satire about a jaded Nobel-winning physicist whose dysfunctional personal life and cynical ambition see him pursuing a solar-energy based solution for climate change."
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood a trilogy, with the 3rd and titled volume published in 2013.
Atwood's 3 volume tour de force, adorned in dark humor, of a future based on the outcomes intentional and unintended, from the final ascendancy of neoliberal thought and climate change denial.
The humor? How about Project Bearlift? The energy corporations, that, in the book's "past" where drilling for oil and gas in the newly de-iced arctic. The same companies had funded transport for Bearlift, a program that air drops food waste collected by consumers and school children for starving polar bears.
The three books, in order to be read:
Oryx & Crake
Year of the Flood
Maddaddam
Highly recommended.
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