Monday, January 13, 2020

Dan Bloom in the New York Times in 2014 -- Movies Like ‘Snowpiercer’ Can Sound the Alarm

Movies Like ‘Snowpiercer’ Can Sound the Alarm

Dan Bloom
Dan Bloom blogs at cli-fi.net
 
He is on Twitter at @do_you_cli_fi_
July 30, 2014
 
“Cli-fi” movies and novels have the power to change minds. That's their mission. Have they sparked any change in society at large? Maybe not. But the potential of this genre is apparent in some of its storylines.

A scientist takes a moral stand against the way the media trivializes and misreports climate issues facing humankind in Barbara Kingsolver's novel "Flight Behavior." The movie “Snowpiercer” gives a sense of climate change’s effects on the developing world when a planetary catastrophe plunges the world into an ice age and the last members of humanity live on a train with the haves separated from the have-nots.

As the novelist Sarah Stone wrote in a recent review of Edan Lepucki's post-apocalyptic novel "California”: If we survive, “it will be in part because of books like this one, which go beyond abstract predictions and statistics to show the moment-by-moment reality of a painful possible future, the price we may have to pay for our passionate devotion to all the wrong things."
 

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