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This is Climate One, changing the conversation about America's energy, economy, and environment. I'm Greg Dalton, and today we're discussing climate fiction in literature and film.

During the Cold War, the specter of nuclear Armageddon was portrayed on screen

and stories ranging from Dr. Strangelove to the 1983 TV mega hit the day after.

Today, climate disruption is catching on in Hollywood.

Recent movies portraying a world gone crazy on carbon include snowpiercer and interstellar.

In literature, Barbara Kingsolver's 2012 novel Flight Behavior was set in a small town where

monarch butterflies migrated north from Mexico in a warming world.

And science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson has written several books featuring a trashed climate,

most recently the novel 2312.

Over the next hour, we will talk with Kim Stanley Robinson and journalist Jason Mark about climate fiction and climate reality.

Along the way, we'll include questions from our live audience at the Commonwealth Club

meeting today in Lafayette.

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