Australian novelist Cat Sparks and debut cli-fi novelist with her LOTUS BLUE novel out now, wrote this very good oped in the Daily Beast magazine today titled: "MOVE OVER SCi-Fi, HERE COMES Cli-fi"

Australian novelist Cat Sparks and debut cli-fi novelist with her LOTUS BLUE novel out now, wrote this very good oped in the Daily Beast magazine today titled: "MOVE OVER SCi-Fi, HERE COMES Cli-fi" -- Take a look here:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/30/move-over-sci-fi-here-comes-climate-fiction.html

Cat writes:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/30/move-over-sci-fi-here-comes-climate-fiction.html

''Climate fiction (Cli Fi) is the literature of our planet in transformation. Focusing specifically on human-created climate change, it allows readers to imagine and experience its complexity. Extrapolated from scientific data rather than pure imagination, climate fiction draws attention to the physical, political, and socio-economic changes that will no doubt be required to mitigate and adapt to the ever-increasing threat of global warming, such as reorientation of economies, government intervention, and changes to mass consumption practices.
 

''Climate science speaks of great
uncertainties: targets outlined in the Paris Agreement are no longer achievable, the release of methane from the melting permafrost might be more devastating than previously guessed. Bleaching coral, ravaged crops, and the spread of vector-borne diseases are only the tip of the iceberg.
 

''Climate fiction is shaping up as the literature of now because we’re past the point of no return regarding science fiction’s cautionary tales. Many of science fiction’s blockbuster books and films warned us with catastrophic visions of the future. But caution was not exercised; it was thrown recklessly to the winds, and remains there still.''

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/30/move-over-sci-fi-here-comes-climate-fiction.html