Climate change and the apocalypse are frequently associated in the
popular imagination of the twenty-first century. This collection of
essays brings together climatologists, theologians, historians,
literary scholars, and philosophers to address and critically
assess this association. The contributing authors are concerned,
among other things, with the relation between cultural and
scientific discourses on climate change; the role of apocalyptic
images and narratives in representing environmental issues; and the
tension between reality and fiction in apocalyptic representations
of catastrophes. By focusing on how figures in fictional texts
interact with their environment and deal with the consequences of
climate change, this volume foregrounds the broader social and
cultural function of apocalyptic narratives of climate change. By
evoking a sense of collective human destiny in the face of the
ultimate catastrophe, apocalyptic narratives have both cautionary
and inspirational functions. Determining the extent to which such
narratives square with scientific knowledge of climate change is
one of the main aims of this book.
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