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For him this lacunae reflects a crisis of culture and imagination which is reflected in our inability to come to terms with climate change and deal with decisively, if failed attempts to reach an agreement at COP. For Ghosh, this crisis of climate change is also reflected in lack of literary scholarship. I argue that there is sufficient literary fiction in the form of science fiction and other forms which actually depicts planet earth in various apocalyptic climatic conditions. Such depictions of earth and its inhabitants affected by climate change are not just some alarmist hallucinatory imaginations. ‘Cli-fi ’ novels, as they popularly came to be called in the recent years, provide imaginative accounts of life affected by climate change, which are more convincing than hard facts of science. Such fictions actually work to counter the myth that climate change is not real.  \nKey Words: climate change, crisis, facts, fiction, global warming, literary, scenario, science  \nResearch Background  \nIt is true that writers like Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Barbara Kingsolver, Doris Lessing and Ian McEvan have imaginatively visualised climate change in its various forms. Amitav Ghosh also quotes renowned historian Dipesh Chakrabarty. For Dipesh Chakrabarty,“humans have become geological agents, changing the most basic physical processes of the Earth.” The Anthropocene is definitely a challenge to common folk as well as to the creative writer. But, unlike Amitav Ghosh who tends to consider science fiction as a low literary form, I would argue that science fiction has contributed to raising awareness about climate change and other related scenarios long before the political world woke up to the sad realities of climate change.  \nIn the genre of science fiction one is reminded of Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Green Planet'trilogy that capture international politics, science and real life ramifications of climate change. Kim Stanley Robinson’s portrayals earth affected by climate change and the politics and science that follow reminds us of Karl Marx’s famous line regarding history, if we see how nations fail to reach an understanding on how to deal with climate change. Marx famously said that historical entities appear two times: first as tragedy, then as a farce.  \nThere exists a genre of fiction known as Climate Fiction or “Cli-fi” which deals with climate change and global warming. Though the word climate fiction is of recent origins, climate fiction has already been written. The names of J.G.Ballard, Octavia E.Butler are familiar to readers. J.G.Ballard is a writer whose novels always show a world where human beings live on the edge in the aftermath of climate induced changes and world affected by nuclear holocaust. Once again Ballard wrote these novels way back in 1960s. It clearly shows that fiction writers were actually ahead of their time in anticipating climate change. In his novels The Drowned World and the Burning World he depicts a world profoundly affected by climate change. In “The Drowned World” (1962) depicts a postapocalyptic future global warming has led to the large parts of the world being drowned. The novel has been identified as a founding text in the literary genre known as climate fiction.In contrast to The Drowned World, The Burning World describes a world in which water is scarce. After an  \nextensive drought, rivers have turned to trickles and the earth to dust, causing the world's populations to head toward the oceans in search of water. The drought is caused ","cbCaimi1g5Bdh9vz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimi1g5Bdh9vz","pdf",450920,"English","# Introduction\n# Research Background\n## Science Fiction and Climate Awareness\n## Climate Fiction (Cli-fi) and Key Authors","[{\"question\":\"Why does the paper emphasize a “crisis of culture and imagination” regarding climate change?\",\"answer\":\"It cites Amitav Ghosh’s view that fiction has not addressed climate change enough, linking the gap to cultural and imaginative shortcomings in confronting climate realities.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper describe the value of “cli-fi” compared with hard scientific facts?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that climate fiction provides imaginative accounts that can be more convincing than purely factual science, helping to challenge the myth that climate change is not real.\"},{\"question\":\"Which fictional works are discussed as early or foundational climate fiction examples?\",\"answer\":\"The paper highlights J. G. 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