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This powerful new eco drama suggests “cli-fi” could play a crucial role in climate communication.
Research suggests the act of creative writing can have therapeutic benefits.
Novels aren’t responsible for the climate crisis and probably won’t solve it, but there is plenty they can do. They can make us feel for lives unlike our own; modelling careful thinking and analysis.
Almost a century ago, New Zealand and Australia were at the forefront of an environmental crisis that forewarned of humanity’s global impact – erosion. It left its mark on culture.
Literature of the past can help us to make the cultural shift that’s necessary to address climate change.
These seven cli-fi novels will get you fired up for action.
Our responsibility to consider how the future might look for generations to come requires imagination.
Although not pitched as one, Avengers: Endgame is an environmental movie. But in reality, we need to face our fears and find solutions, rather than perpetuating the fantasy of regressing into the past.
Geostorm is the newest addition to the Hollywood climate doom canon. It is terrible, which is why you should think about this genre but under no circumstances actually watch this movie.
Climate scientists often bombard their audiences with facts and figures - a method of communication that often doesn’t work. Perhaps this is where cli-fi can step in, with its compelling characters and just slightly embellished science.
Can the Victorian novel offers us a means of thinking and feeling about our own moment anew?
The Industrial Revolution choked English cities in smog, filled rivers with waste and spread disease in crowded cities. At the same time, fairy tales about humans destroying nature proliferated.
A volcanic eruption in 1815 triggered a year without a summer – prompting a flowering of nature writing that is all too relevant today.
Climate disaster films are an emerging genre that reflect people’s desire to cope with a changing planet through art. How will they affect public attitudes on climate change?
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Senior Lecturer in English, Massey University
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Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Leeds
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Reader in English Literature, University of Surrey
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Director of External Research for frank, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida
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Director, Center for Public Interest Communications, University of Florida
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PhD candidate, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor (adjunct) in Creative Writing, Flinders University
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PhD Candidate in Creative Writing, University of Liverpool
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in English, University of Leeds
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John Rowe Lecturer in Australian Literature, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, Flinders University
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Associate Lecturer, Creative Writing, Flinders University
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Professor in Human Geography, Royal Holloway University of London
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Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
