UNIT 1 OVERVIEW.
In this imaginary, anthropogenic climate change leads to human conflict either on a macro-level, in the shape of war, or on a micro-level, in the shape of individuals battling for limited resources in post-apocalyptic worlds where the social contract has ruptured. The imaginary has a cultural history that goes back to the biblical story of Babel. However, in climate fiction applying the imaginary of the social breakdown, it is not a punishing God that set humanity’s progress into reverse gear by dividing it up into antagonistic clans: it is the technological arrogance of humanity itself, which anthropogenic global warming sets into motion a world where nations or climate refugees incapable of communicating with each other are engaged in a battle onto death.
In this imaginary, anthropogenic climate change leads to human conflict either on a macro-level, in the shape of war, or on a micro-level, in the shape of individuals battling for limited resources in post-apocalyptic worlds where the social contract has ruptured. The imaginary has a cultural history that goes back to the biblical story of Babel. However, in climate fiction applying the imaginary of the social breakdown, it is not a punishing God that set humanity’s progress into reverse gear by dividing it up into antagonistic clans: it is the technological arrogance of humanity itself, which anthropogenic global warming sets into motion a world where nations or climate refugees incapable of communicating with each other are engaged in a battle onto death.
FICTION
Short Fiction
NONFICTION
Informational Texts
OTHER MEDIA
Short Fiction
- "The Tamarisk Hunter" by Paolo Bacigalupi, High Country News, 26 June 2006.
- "Spider the Artist" by Nnedi Okorafor, Lightspeed, Issue 10, March 2011
- "Monstro" by Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, June 4 and 11, 2012.
NONFICTION
Informational Texts
- "An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security" by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall, a 2003 Pentagon study
- "Inside the Growing Movement to Make Ecocide an International Crime" by Trevor Bach, Audubon Magazine, 17 June 2021.
OTHER MEDIA
- "Colorado River Reckoning: Drought, Climate, and Equal Access," Climate One Podcast, 11 June 2021.
TERMS TO KNOW.
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AUDIOBOOK GALLERY.
"The Tamarisk Hunter" by Paolo Bacigalupi
30m 43s
30m 43s
VIDEO GALLERY.
"Who Shall Give Us Flesh to Eat?"
The Zombie Figure as Social Commentary in Junot Díaz's "Monstro" Video Lecture by Mr. Wheeler |
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