ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I address climate change, climate science, and climate activism from the perspective of futuring, a novel theoretical approach that investigates how and why images of the future become influential (or not). Ideas about the future are a crucial part of climate change politics. To investigate the imagining of climate futures, I will draw on the techniques of futuring concept. Like other chapters in this volume, this description relies on the literature on sociotechnical imaginaries. Finally, I return to the question of climate activism through the idea of a politics of the imagination, in which different groups try to bring people together around their ideas of a desirable future. In this chapter, then, I address this question by investigating relationships between climate projections, activism, and the ways in which the collective imagination structures climate politics.
