The Great Displacement
Most of us live in the Florida Keys, but even those of us who don’t can relate to the need to respond, in some way, to climate change. We aren’t approaching this from a scientific angle, necessarily. We’re going to be looking at how writers use their imaginations to respond to an uncertain future and to think about what it means to live in a place like Florida.
Sample Answer
- Dystopian fiction: Writers have long used dystopian fiction to explore the potential negative consequences of climate change. For example, Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” depicts a future where environmental collapse has led to a totalitarian regime.
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Climate fiction: This is a more recent genre that specifically focuses on the impact of climate change on human society. Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future” follows a group of people who come together to try to mitigate the effects of climate change.