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The Climate-Conscious WriterWren James

Wren James — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:55:55 +0000

Having worked with hundreds of climate writers over the last five years, the climate fiction I see is mainly dystopian, focusing on the negative effects of climate change without offering proactive solutions. Rather than encouraging action, stories like these make readers shut down and feel anxious. I would love to see more books that [...]

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How Stories Lead to Action Denise Baden

Denise Baden — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:49:37 +0000

Stories both reflect and influence our values and behaviours. How characters behave, what they think and do and feel, and importantly, what they don’t think about or don’t bother doing, sets the cultural landscape against which we judge our own actions and those of others. This makes fictional role models the ultimate influencers – [...]

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10 Things We Must RememberTom Bullough

Tom Bullough — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000

For 2100, 77 years from now, the likely range in global temperature increase above the pre-industrial average is 2-4.9°C, with the median 3.2°C. Globally, that is to say, we are set on a course for a barely imaginable catastrophe. As Sir David Attenborough put it, four years ago this month, “It may sound frightening, [...]

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Out of Time: Poetry From the Climate EmergencyKate Simpson

Kate Simpson — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:00:10 +0000

Can you tell us a little more about the anthology ‘Out of Time: Poetry From the Climate Emergency’ why and how did it come about? Was there any particular ‘trigger’ that compelled you to edit this collection? 2021 has been such a pivotal year for the planet, and it brought together many key events [...]

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