ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book emphasizes a connection between accelerating global warming and accelerating interhuman violence that had not been so visible before anthropogenic global warming accelerated. It emerges out of the conspiratorially created confusion was in a sense a hermeneutics of suspicion presuming any authoritative communication to contain an intention of manipulation. The book discusses contained a powerful potential for intervention. It argues that climate fiction can help counteract the crisis in imagination which the acceleration of anthropogenic global warming represents for contemporary humans and societies. The book examines a connection between absolute human dominion and total powerlessness that had not been so visible before anthropogenic global warming accelerated. It appears wilderness also incarnated an existential quality, as it was depicted as a place capable of generating fundamental human change.
