ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies some of the dominant, emerging and evolving climate narratives in the three fields of law, fiction and activism, and considered case studies from each field in which these narratives are developed. In both fiction and activism, predictions, depictions and enactments of wild time have played and are playing a key role. Time is a central feature of scientific climate narratives, which are largely premised around the predictions of future modelling. Irrespective of its function as a catalyst for climate action, narrative can potentially play a central role in climate change adaptation. The child, emblematic of these future fears, has taken on an important role in some climate litigation and also appears in a variety of different manifestations in climate fiction. The role played by cyborgs and nonhuman animals in the wild time of climate fiction provides both provocative and frightening insights into the broader implications of climate change.
