JUST how will the world end? Take your pick among an array of near-future catastrophes: continuously rising sea levels, unspeakbable global warming impact events, not to mention floods of climate refugees making a vain beeline to the Arctic regions of the world and continuously rising sea levels, unspeakbable global warming impact events, not to mention floods of climate refugees making a vain beeline to the Arctic regions of the world and continuously rising sea levels, unspeakbable global warming impact events, not to mention floods of climate refugees making a vain beeline to the Arctic regions of the world and continuously rising sea levels, unspeakbable global warming impact events, not to mention floods of climate refugees making a vain beeline to the Arctic regions of the world and continuously rising sea levels, unspeakbable global warming impact events, not to mention floods of climate refugees making a vain beeline to the Arctic regions of the world...
 
Yes, the prophets of doom are unusually loud in these pre-Climapocalypse times, and almost every vision of the future, whether by sober academics or wild-eyed ''cli-fi'' writers, carries with it the stench of despair. Yup, the collapse of civilization has become its a driving, inexorable ''narrative.''
But the dark predictions also have had a sunny AGW counterpart -- the hopeful, optimistic dream of a better world. That's where cli-fi novelists and movie directors have a role to play as the world heads to its crushing, unspeakable collapse due to AGW impact events in the next 30 generations, about 500 years from now. MORE HERE:

It doesn't all have to be doom and gloom -- or Dystopiana and Drougtlandia. No, optimistic scenaries of how humankind can wriggle through the current climate wormhole are also on the menu and being served up by ''clience fiction'' novelists worldwide.

CF is here to stay and have its say.