The goal of this class, however, is not to marshal evidence for climate change ... but how to think about it, prepare for it and respond to it. Instead of scientific texts, the class, “The Cultures of Climate Change,” focuses on films, poetry, photography, essays and a heavy dose of the mushrooming subgenre of speculative fiction known as climate fiction, or cli-fi, novels like “Odds Against Tomorrow,” by Nathaniel Rich, and “Solar,” by Ian McEwan.
Um, 'cuse me: I may not be a brilliant liberal/prog, but I'm not really sure how consuming, and then bloviating on class essays, films, poetry, photography, essays and climate fiction prepares anyone to deal with climate change, assuming arguendo that the climate change hypothesized by this class is, in fact, real (a very dubious assumption).