ABSTRACT
This chapter considers legal and activist narratives intended to prevent runaway climate change. These narratives have an overarching purpose: they offer redemption, the promise that humanity can yet avoid the multiple challenges and devastation of wild time on Hothouse Earth. Climate fiction is, almost exclusively, the narrative domain in which the potential dimensions of wild time are fully explored and portrayed. Most climate fiction narratives portray different versions of wild time. Humanity is present although, in some instances, only a vastly reduced human population remains. Walkaways tend to feature in climate fiction that is set in the period immediately before wild time, or during its graduated onset. The mega-corporation, already an omniscient presence in the Anthropocence, has overtly seized power from nation States in many fictitious versions of wild time, or at least in the dystopian preludes to wild time. Climate fiction also explores the dimensions and consequences of accelerating species extinctions.
