Pascal, I loved your comment and let’s see where things go. All POV welcome in my  neck of the woods, yours too. Here is news of solarpunk movement and AP story on cli fi:

Adam Flynn, in a recent post on the Heiroglyph website —  wrote, “We’re solarpunks because the only other options are denial or despair.”

I love it, great genre term! Go…[Read more]

Well, John, I like your comments and this is a very interesting conversation and I hope more people here join in. I have an open mind about all this, so I enjoy reading your posts. Thanks. — danny

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https://korgw101.blogspot.tw/2014/10/liberated-carbon-song-by-musician-andy.html

UPDATE: See and read carefully. Wired reporter in Los Angeles Scott Thill’s very good ”CLI FI IS REAL” essay at Huffington Post this week, it is the most important post-sci fi esssay of the 21st century: Here link:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-thill/cli-fi-is-real_b_6072518.html

@John Edds above, good comment and I see what you mean re

”Everyone has heard of global warming. It’s on TV everyday.” ‘….We get it, and we’re working on it. Solar power is almost as inexpensive as fossil fuels, and it will be cheaper than them in a few years. We’re going to solve this.”

and yes, as you say “Nolan is trying to inspire inter…[Read more]

wait till you read this 1922 news cli fi novel —  earliest cli fi novel 1922! – Karel Čapek Energies: The Absolute at Large as Proto-*Cli*-*Fi* Li…[Read more]

earliest cli fi novel 1922! – Karel Čapek Energies: The Absolute at Large as Proto-*Cli*-*Fi* Lit
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.deletionscifi.org/episodes/czech-book/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTgyOTI2NjY3MjQ0MTQ0NDY3NDcyHTY1YjVmOTM0NzZiMzM0NjI6Y29tLnR3OmVuOlRX&usg=AFQjCNGa0jMOe4ncViv_rSM20DFuT8pjrw

Wait till you read this, everyone! Andy at Luther College unearthed this one from 1922 —  earliest cli fi novel 1922! – Karel Čapek Energies: The Absolute at Large as Proto-*Cli*-*Fi* Li…[Read more]

Kathryn and Brenda and Garrett and all: I love the new collection and the Guardian review by Damien Walter was good but…..one major reservation and i hope the second collection in 2016 or whenever can include much more focus on cli fi and here’s why: This anthology is a very good and well curated collection and bravo to the two editors and the…[Read more]

Eric see this: I wish the second collection of sci fi stories for the anthology will  have more emphasis on climate-themed and global warming stories, as sci fi can also go in that direction and should do it more, so hope the second anthology that is curated later will include some good cli fi stories too. I am surprised nobody in the reviews he…[Read more]

This anthology is a very good and well curated collection and bravo to the two editors and the contributors. I wish there had been more emphasis on climate-themed and global warming stories, as sci fi can also go in that direction and should do it more, so hope the second anthology that is curated later will include some good cli fi stories too. I…[Read more]

The Hieroglyph anthology is a very good and well curated collection and bravo to the two editors and the contributors. I wish there had been more emphasis on climate-themed and global warming stories, as sci fi can also go in that direction and should do it more, so hope the second anthology that is curated later will include some good cli fi…[Read more]

ERI

Cli fi (or “cli-fi”) is a genre term for novels and movies based around the themes of climate change and global warming. It takes its name as a shortening of <b>cli</b>mate <b>fi</b>ction, much as science fiction is often shortened to “sci-fi”. While the two genres share some features in common and can both be regarded as part of the…[Read more]