"I will be writing more on this “slowness” and is relationship to climate fiction at some point in the near future, but it is, I think, one of the things that distinguishes climate apocalypses from, say, nuclear apocalypses."
I look forward to this; the psychology of handling sudden disasters vs. slow-motion disasters is quite important, …
"I will be writing more on this “slowness” and is relationship to climate fiction at some point in the near future, but it is, I think, one of the things that distinguishes climate apocalypses from, say, nuclear apocalypses."
I look forward to this; the psychology of handling sudden disasters vs. slow-motion disasters is quite important, I think. (For example, how people respond to hurricanes hitting Louisiana as opposed to creeping salinity in the soil.) A related piece of psychology that I think matters too: averting nuclear apocalypse means avoiding doing something that we haven't done, whereas averting ecological apocalypse means stopping something that we ARE doing. In both cases I think the "it's already happening" aspect leads people to downplay the situation.
Thanks for the recommendation. I wasn't overwhelmed with Bacigalupi's "The Windup Girl" but I may check this one out.
"I will be writing more on this “slowness” and is relationship to climate fiction at some point in the near future, but it is, I think, one of the things that distinguishes climate apocalypses from, say, nuclear apocalypses."
I look forward to this; the psychology of handling sudden disasters vs. slow-motion disasters is quite important, I think. (For example, how people respond to hurricanes hitting Louisiana as opposed to creeping salinity in the soil.) A related piece of psychology that I think matters too: averting nuclear apocalypse means avoiding doing something that we haven't done, whereas averting ecological apocalypse means stopping something that we ARE doing. In both cases I think the "it's already happening" aspect leads people to downplay the situation.
Thanks for the recommendation. I wasn't overwhelmed with Bacigalupi's "The Windup Girl" but I may check this one out.