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  • Schools add 'cli-fi' — climate fiction — to lit curriculums

    03/06/2016 10:13:30 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 12 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Mar. 6, 2016 10:52 AM EST | Wilson Ring
    Colleges and universities worldwide are incorporating into their curriculums the evolving genre of literature that focuses on the changes coming to Earth as the result of climate change — "cli-fi." Some of the books and movies now being considered part of the genre are old classics, while others were written more recently in direct response to today's changing climate. "It's a very, very energized time for this where people in literature have just as much to say as people who are in hard science fields, or technology and design fields, or various social-science approaches to these things," said Jennifer Wicke,...