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Record Nr.

UNINA9910676688203321

Autore

Milner Andrew

Titolo

Science fiction and climate change : a sociological approach / / Andrew Milner and J.R. Burgmann [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-80034-118-0

1-78962-752-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 pages)

Collana

Liverpool science fiction texts and studies

Liverpool scholarship online

Disciplina

809.38762

Soggetti

Science fiction - History and criticism

Climatic changes in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Despite the occasional upsurge of climate change scepticism amongst Anglophone conservative politicians and journalists, there is still a near-consensus amongst climate scientists that current levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas are sufficient to alter global weather patterns to disastrous effect. The resultant climate crisis is simultaneously both a natural and a socio-cultural phenomenon and in this book Milner and Burgmann argue that science fiction occupies a critical location within this nature/culture nexus.