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 ## 2026-07-06
 
+### @{novel-climate-change}
+
+A broad discussion of climate change in recent novels. I was looking for
+discussion of the place (or non-place) of utopia in modern environmental
+fiction. The best I could find was some discussion in the Conclusion, p232 and
+following, where he argues that whereas 1970-1995ish climate change wasan
+unrealistic, imaginative, future possibility, 'science fiction' material,
+nowadays, the perception that climate change is now and real makes that kind of
+speculative fiction impossible, and climate realism is the order of the day.
+
 ### @{green-utopias}
 
 In chapter 6, Garforth studies McKibben's 2003 _The End of Nature_, in which he