If you were a fiction writer and wanted to warn the world about climate change, what would you do? If you saw that science alone was failing to convince people to take action as a matter of urgency? You would use your talent as a writer, in possession of a far-reaching imagination, to spin a yarn that was both credible and frightening. You would write about the effects of global warming years and years into the future, where mankind had to live underground for six months of the year, when the temperature in summer could rise to 50 degrees centigrade. How could the human race survive? Would they survive?
Historical novels tell us more about life in the past than "real" history books. Maybe this fictional glimpse into the future will do the same.
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