5/26/2023 0 Comments Black Wave by Michelle TeaEven more dramatically, in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital trilogy (2004–7), the catastrophic climate events triggered by global warming prompt radical reactions from American scientists and politicians. For instance, in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Wind-Up Girl (2009), climate change’s exacerbation of economic inequality motivates all of the book’s multiple plotlines, with characters resisting corporate monopolies on scarce energy and food resources. This is generally the point of cli-fi-to subvert what many environmentalists see as the dangerous overprivileging of the human, to begin with ecology as the first principle. The increasingly popular genre recently christened “cli-fi,” or climate change fiction, tends to move from the outside in: as the environment deteriorates, readers watch the cascading effects on nations, communities, relationships, individuals.
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