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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

includes 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 will include questions from our

live audience at the Commonwealth Club meeting today in Lafayette. Author Kim Stanley Robinson

is perhaps best known for his Mars trilogy. His climate-themed work includes Antarctica and 40 signs of rain. The New Yorker

magazine called him the greatest living science fiction writer. Jason Mark is editor of the Earth

Island Journal and recently penned a column on Clify published in the New York Times op-ed page. Please

welcome them to Climate One.

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