Climate Skeptics and Fiction
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Why would a climate skeptic be interested in writing fictional stories?
John M. Cape – Author of Poorly Zeroed
Why would a climate skeptic be interested in writing fictional stories?
The simple answer is that they capture our imagination. There’s a real market for dystopian literature. The Alarmists have had great success in this arena.
Nature’s End, a 1986 adventure, featured mankind destroying the atmosphere with poor environmental decisions. Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior was a poetic piece that dealt with Monarch butterflies incapable of dealing with global warming. Ian MacEwan’s Solar deals with a bureaucrat tackling global warming.
In the cinema, similar accounts blame mankind for environmental disasters of all sorts. The Mad Max series features a world of crazies burning up the final remnants of fossil fuels. Don’t Look Up ridicules skeptics as unreasonable and unscientific people. The Day After Tomorrow depicts catastrophic climate effects leading to oceanic events that lead to the start of the next glaciation.
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