Using Rob Nixon’s argument, novels do in fact play a special role in helping us think more richly, more clearly, and more deeply about climate change in a way that media such as the news could never do. Nixon brings up the word “apprehension” near the end of his article, going into the fact that writer-activists, as described in Nixon’s article, “can help us apprehend threats imaginatively that remain imperceptible to the senses…” (Nixon, from “Slow Violence”, 15). Writing about climate change challenges the readers understanding of the world around them by exposing them to a myriad of natural disaster/climate change scenarios, forcing them to use their imaginations and think: “Could this happen in real life?” Nixon mentions another point, stating that writer-activists imaginative narratives offer a different kind of  view, or witnessing, and that is of “sights unseen”. He also brings up how poor communities are always “disproportionately exposed to the force fields of slow violence”, and how they are abandoned to sporadic science or no science at all, being subjected to involuntary pharmaceutical experiments and the like. Nixon ties it back to novels by explaining that people such as writers that can help to expose the truths and shed light on the issues that were covered up by those threats, and could also help to share the stories of the people whose not only lives but also entire existence is threatened, yet ignored by the indifferent opinions of the corporate media. Whereas if topics like mistreatment of poor communities and climate change were discussed in the news (as they are occasionally especially when natural disasters hit), the issue would more or less be glossed over and eventually buried under millions of other, less important stories, mostly because people of today’s day and age have priority over the mundane celebrity gossip rather than the fact that we are killing our own planet. The only time the climate matters is if it’s too hot, there are category 4 hurricanes, 30ft tall tsunamis, or any other sort of natural disaster that could wipe out a city, but people tend to forget that there are other sorts of climate changes happening all around us, even if we don’t see it on the news. This would be the type of “slow violence” that Nixon was speaking about before– slowly, but surely, we our killing our own planet and thought we might not be seeing the effects immediately or at all, that doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Where novels come into play with this, however, as I mentioned before, it introduces new ideas and feeds into curiosity and into the imagination to try to get people to open their eyes. Novels last longer than a 5 minute segment on TV, and actually reading about these issues, whether they’re presented in our own world or in a galaxy far, far away, could provide further insight and absorption of the information, as writing has a much deeper impact than something you can watch with your eyes but not with your brain.