http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/telling-the-story-of-climate-change-in-fiction/
04/08/2016
Telling the Story of Climate Change — Via ''Cli-Fi''
Numbers and projections are one way to tell the story of climate change. But lately, dozens of writers around the world, and not just in English-speaking countries, have tried another tactic — imagining the climate change future via literature. Take SF author Paolo Bacigalupi, whose latest thriller The Water Knife imagines the economic, social, and environmental collapse of a near-future American Southwest.
And it’s not just SF writers who are getting in on the act: Writers like Ian McEwan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Nathaniel Rich have all experimented with cli-fi. Bacigalupi and University of Oregon English professor Stephanie LeMenager join guest host John Dankosky to talk about writing — and reading — ''cli-fi'' novels, and what role storytelling might play in helping us confront our climate change future.
[*** For more information on the background and backstory of the rise of the cli-fi genre, see The Cli Fi Report ] - cli-fi.net
And it’s not just SF writers who are getting in on the act: Writers like Ian McEwan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Nathaniel Rich have all experimented with cli-fi. Bacigalupi and University of Oregon English professor Stephanie LeMenager join guest host John Dankosky to talk about writing — and reading — ''cli-fi'' novels, and what role storytelling might play in helping us confront our climate change future.
[*** For more information on the background and backstory of the rise of the cli-fi genre, see The Cli Fi Report ] - cli-fi.net
Studio Guests
Paolo Bacigalupi
Paolo Bacigalupi is the author of The Water Knife. He lives in Colorado.
Stephanie LeMenager
Stephanie LeMenager is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon
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Read an excerpt of Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife.About the PRODUCER OF THE SHOW Annie Minoff
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Annie Minoff is a producer for Science Friday. She’s visited Olympic ski jumps and a nuclear reactor, all in the name of science.
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The story was produced by ''Science Friday with Ira Flatow,'' a show that PRI distributes. PRI.org<http://pri.org> regularly publishes stories from Science Friday. PRI is not NPR. PRI is a producer of radio programs, websites and podcasts and also distributes radio programs to public radio stations. The team that runs PRI.org<http://pri.org>, is a web site that publishes global news stories for Millennials and people who think like Millennials.
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