Climate Fiction Is Popular, but Readers Sometimes Led to Believe Fictional Portrayals Are Accurate

Climate activist groups spend a lot of money to inject their message into all media we consume. Whether it’s the movies we watch or the news we read, activists want everyone to be terrified of global warming and to demand transitioning away from fossil fuels.

While Hollywood has been less inclined to spread the “climate crisis” narrative so far, a whole genre of science fiction novels has sprung up appealing to audiences who apparently believe that global warming can produce scenarios in which the human race struggles for its survival in the midst of civilization’s collapse.

Climate fiction, also known as cli-fi, is growing in popularity, and while many audiences of all political persuasions enjoy dystopian worlds in science fiction, cli-fi may be fueling readers’ belief in a climate apocalypse that doesn’t accurately portray climate science.

“This is not this is not realistic, and this is my problem. Mocking them is one thing, but I actually have a huge problem with books that claim to be fiction, that claim to be literature, but they are not, in fact, literature. They’re not fiction. They are a means to send a political message,” Irina Slav, a Bulgarian fantasy writer and energy journalist, told Just the News. […]

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