After the Deluge: What Future for Climate Fiction? - Public Books

Political Scenarios for Climate Disaster - Dissent Magazine

In the Global North we often act as if our future will be a warmer version of today: liberal capitalism, plus flood insurance, minus coral reefs. That future is a fantasy.

Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View (Published 2022)

There's plenty of bad news. But thanks to real progress, we're headed toward a less apocalyptic future.

The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age is to grapple with what this means and to confront humanities scholars with ideas they have been reluctant to reconsider—from the changed nature of human agency to a new acceptance of universals. Chakrabarty argues that we must see ourselves from two perspectives at once: the planetary and the global. This distinction is central to Chakrabarty’s work—the globe is a human-centric construction, while a planetary perspective intentionally decenters the human. Featuring wide-ranging excursions into historical and philosophical literatures, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age boldly considers how to frame the human condition in troubled times. As we open ourselves to the implications of the Anthropocene, few writers are as likely as Chakrabarty to shape our understanding of the best way forward.

We asked our climate reporters to highlight one idea for positive change. We got a chronicle of global transformation

There are countless initiatives around the world that can inspire people and spur them into action. Amid the devastation of the climate crisis, our journalists strive to highlight these stories of hope

The best sci-fi and fantasy books of 2023

It’s been a stellar year in speculative fiction

Appropriate Technology, Permacomputing, Post Growth, and Ecomodernism.

To adapt to the changing climate, we need to radically rethink how and why we do the things we do. From technology, to social movements, to economics. The world is at stake. And we can change it.

Visualising Climate 2026 — Conference

A global conference on climate data visualization, storytelling, and science. Bologna, Italy • 4–6 November 2026.

The long season of langdev

The book The Burning World by J.G. Ballard is a post-apocalyptic science fiction tale about the near complete dissipation of water from the surface of the Earth.

A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books

Did the Weather Underground have a point?

"Wandering towards dystopia": CSIRO scientists want open discussion of climate impacts before it's too late

Senior CSIRO scientists discussed how to have an "open conversation" about the rising threats from a warming world before "it's too late".

The current war on science, and who’s behind it

A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar write a book.

The 'Future Book' Is Here, but It's Not What We Expected

Visionaries thought technology would change books. Instead, it's changed everything about publishing a book.

Imagination: a manifesto

One of The Millions's Most-Anticipated Books of Winter 2024 In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future