Climate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction

by E. Ann Kaplan

Each month brings new scientific findings that demonstrate the ways in which human activities, from resource extraction to carbon emissions, are doing unprecedented, perhaps irreparable damage to our world. As we hear these climate change reports and their predictions for the future of Earth, many of us feel a sickening sense of d j vu, as though we have already seen the sad outcome to this story.

Drawing from recent scholarship that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813563992
• ISBN13: 9780813563992
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary