Rong, Mingcan. “Climate Fiction:A Promising Way of Communicating Climate Change with the General Public.” Studies in Social & Humanities, Vol. 2 No.2(2023)https://www.paradigmpress.org/SSSH/article/view/432

• This text is broken down into parts but I will only be focusing on the Cli-fi portion of it to get a better explanation of what the genre as a whole is focused on. Ron talks about the emergence of Cli-fi in 2010 and how it is used as a communication tool to provide more information about what is actually happening as a “‘precautionary measures to anticipate, precent, or minimize the causes of climate change’” it helps show the word what is actually happening in the world around us that not everyone is paying attention to.

Baeza, Francisco, “SLOW VIOLENCE, CLI-FI, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHANGE HOW BIPOC FUTURISMS PROMOTE ACTIVISM” (2022). Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations. 1434.

SLOW VIOLENCE, CLI-FI, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHANGE HOW BIPOC FUTURISMS PROMOTE ACTIVISM

The threat of anthropogenic climate change is discussed almost exclusively in terms of “scientific” data to the exclusion of the humanities. For some worlds, climate change has already destroyed their ways of life and forced them to adapt.

• People are quick on dismissing the power of literature and how it can change a persons perception of the world. The author goes in depth of slow violence talking about how the magic of it is that no one can really see the effect it causes. He brings up how novels like Parable of the Sower, The Marrow Thieves, and parts of The Vanished Birds imagines a setting similar to ours in ruins pulling the reader to thing that Climate Change  is something that truly is happening right here and right now. But he speaks on Butlers influence of writing the novel and how it takes place so far in the future trying to predict the world coming to an end.

Estock, C. Simon. “Cli-fi and the Future of the Novel: Building on Helena Feder’s “Ecocriticism and Biology” Special Issue” John Hopkins University Press Vol. 31, Number 4, Fall 2023, p. 317-329. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2023.a912112.

• Estock speaks on how the climate and environmental issues have gotten worse since Helen Feder’s Special issue. Since it is all getting worse  more questions are starting to rise of urgency of presenting scientific data in literary narratives which will impact literary genres. He raises the question “Who wants to read about the little things? Who would read about the nematode Potoroxyuris keninupensis or eukaryal aeroplankton when tigers and elephants are so much more relatable?” Saying that aspects like this is a challenge that the genre of Cli-fi as a whole faces. Estock explains how Ghosh manages to make this narrative driven story but also maintains how science is the focal point of the story  and it helps build a better understanding of the world. He acknowledges how “Ghosh not only presents local knowledge but also shows both its dialogue and its conflict with the more scientific explanations of things.” even going and explaining how people cross the line on certain things causing a metaphorical storm.

Butler, Octavia. “Parable of the Sower” Grand Central Publishing, 1993.

• A world in ruin after the effects of climate change causing the plants to dry up and the people to go crazy. The main character Lauren loses all of her family in her town of Robledo California. After that she and two of her friends Harry and Zahra set out on an adventure across North America. As more members join their group the more Lauren spreads her ideology of Earthed a religion she created.

Ghosh, Amitav. “The Hungry Tide” A Mariner Book Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004.

• Two characters Kanai and Piya meet on a train and meet up again in some unforeseen circumstances. They venture out to see to help Piya find these special species of dolphins. Coming across these deadly moments especially Piya coming into the crosshair of village people for defending a tiger from being killed as she wants all life to be protected. which Kanais uncle took part in Ghandi’s protest to protect animals.