'Open Zero' expresses the frustration, anger and bewilderment that Naz may have felt with global political leaders dragging their feet on climate change action.
Why American climate fiction is fuelling age-old stereotypes about modern migration
While employing well-known ideas can help get points across about a potential future, there is a more compelling way to represent climate migration. 2 hours ago Wild fires on the US’s West Coast displaced many from their homes, making them climate change migrants. | Reuters
Typically set in the future, climate fiction (or “cli-fi”) showcases the disastrous consequences of climate change and anticipates the dramatic transformations to come. Among the various scenarios cli-fi considers is unprecedented population displacement due to droughts and disappearing coastlines. These stories echo assessments from the International Organization for Migration, which warned as early as 1990 that migration would perhaps be the “single greatest impact of climate change”.