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How are writers using stories to let readers experience climate change without being overwhelmed by it.

Climate One conversations feature oil companies and environmentalists,

Republicans and Democrats, the exciting and the scary aspects of the climate challenge.

I'm Greg Dalton.

I don't think I ever really believed we were as secure as we seemed.

So in a way, learning about climate was sort of

having my worst fears proven by science. Jenny Offel is a writer and novelist whose most recent

book of fiction is called Weather. The story follows Lizzie, who works on a podcast about

climate change as she

weaves between the daily tasks of parenting a young child and a growing realization that

tomorrow will be hauntingly different from today. Jenny says writing the book helped her learn to

navigate the uncertainties of the climate crisis. If I'm feeling dread, if I'm feeling fear, if I'm feeling

anger, that's good to look directly at and not think that it should be shoved away. Fiction allows

us to participate sympathetically in scenarios that would destroy us if we actually lived through them.

Roy Scranton is professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and a prolific writer

whose books include learning to die in the Anthropocene. And we're doomed. Now what?

Scranton admires awful for creating fiction that allows readers to confront climate uncertainty while

creating enough distance so it doesn't overwhelm them. She's able to put it in this amazing aesthetic

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