ABSTRACT
This essay focuses on the role of artistic and literary imagination in expanding how we understand the climate crisis by foregrounding global warming’s entwinement with other pressing issues of our time. Writing from an intersectional feminist perspective, I call attention to the work of activist artists, writers, and filmmakers who use strategies of science fiction while incorporating scientific fact to link climate change to its social roots in fossil-fuel capitalism. The works discussed include Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (2014), and Molly Crabtree, Naomi Klein, et al. Message from the Future with Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (2019) and Message from the Future 2: The Years of Repair (2020). In their creations, they reframe the climate crisis, provide generative art, video, and writing practices that identify and bring into being hidden realities and spark alternative futures that influence humanity’s non-fictional one.
