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The Climate Fiction Issue
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The Climate Fiction Issue
Exploring the power of storytelling to look beyond the current moment and imagine better futures.
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Can climate fiction deliver climate justice?
Although cli-fi has exploded in popularity, few of its writers treat climate justice as a central issue. But when they do, their words may have more power than even they could imagine.
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The definitive climate fiction reading list
These 20 wildly imaginative books will shape the way you think about our planet’s future — and humanity’s place in it.
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The stories we tell
Fix’s Climate Fiction Issue showcases the power of our words — and imaginations.
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Fix combines creative storytelling with network-building and events.
Arts & Culture
Special Series: Imagine 2200 — Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
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Why intersectionality in fiction matters
The best writers establish connections between diverse communities, which is essential to addressing planetary challenges.
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A multimillion disinformation campaign is trying to convince you that trophy hunting is ‘sustainable’
Groups promoting “sustainable use” to protect wildlife have close ties to industry. To protect biodiversity, we need to follow the money.
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The Dems’ clean energy plan can do better on environmental justice. Here’s how.
Within the budget reconciliation proposal is a clean energy standard that’s great for climate, but not for equity — and frontline communities could suffer more.
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Shift Happens: I’m seriously flipping out about this project
Fix, Grist's solutions lab, just published its first collection of climate fiction. Founder Chip Giller digs in.
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From Afrofuturism to ecotopia: A climate-fiction glossary
Find the climate-fiction genre that inspires you.
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From fiction to reality: Could forests replace cemeteries?
From tree pods and mushroom suits to plain old dirt, death may have a greener future.
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When a queer witch writes climate fiction, utopia isn’t the goal
Philadelphia writer and spell-caster Ailbhe Pascal, an Imagine 2200 finalist, sees fiction as a way to manifest a better future.
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From fiction to reality: the potential of plastic-eating organisms
How tiny worms and bacteria could help solve our plastic problem.
