{"id":5602,"date":"2023-07-09T16:02:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T14:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=5602"},"modified":"2023-07-09T16:02:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T14:02:26","slug":"its-not-climate-change-its-a-change-in-everything-sci-fi-authors-deal-with-a-global-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/07\/09\/its-not-climate-change-its-a-change-in-everything-sci-fi-authors-deal-with-a-global-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;It&#039;s not climate change, it&#039;s everything changing&#039;: science fiction authors address global crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science fiction has always been concerned with worst-case scenarios when imagining our possible futures, and climate has often formed the backdrop to human struggles. Some of the biggest names writing in the genre have addressed the climate crisis and its apocalyptic or dystopian consequences \u2013 Margaret Atwood\u2019s Oryx and Crake, Cormac McCarthy\u2019s The Journey, Bruce Sterling\u2019s Heavy Weather. But a new generation of writers now believe that it is impossible to write \u201cnear-future\u201d science fiction without putting the climate emergency at the forefront of their speculative fiction. For many, this is because they are living through the crisis and can only too easily imagine what might happen if real-life behavior doesn\u2019t change. (<em>David Barnett, The Guardian)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science fiction has always been about worst-case scenarios when imagining our possible futures, and climate has often formed the backdrop to human struggles. Some of the biggest names writing in the genre have addressed the climate crisis and its apocalyptic or dystopian consequences \u2013 Margaret Atwood\u2019s Oryx and Crake, Cormac McCarthy\u2019s The Journey, Bruce Sterling\u2019s Heavy Weather. But a new generation of writers [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}