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Climate fiction, also known as cli-fi, is a literary genre whose theme is climate change and global warming. Most cli-fi novels take place in post-apocalyptic environment, where the characters lives in a world desolated by the effects of climate change.

history
The term « climate fiction » was first used by the writer Dan Bloom in 2008. But it was democratised five years later when NPR did a five minute radio segment on the subject. The firsts books that could be considered as cli-fi would be The purchase of the north pole or Paris in the Twentieth Century, both books were written by jules vernes in the ninetieth century.

Carbon diaries
The current environmental issues have inspired many authors, such as Saci Lloyd, the novelist of “Carbon diaries”. In this novel, Laura Brown, a college student in London, chronicles the struggles England faces as the government tighten carbon emissions limits.

The burning world
J.G. Ballard, known for Crash! Has also written cli fi novels such as The Drought. The Drought, also known as The burning world, tells the story of a world at the edge of extinction, where a global drought caused by industrials waste left human kind in a desperate search for water.

Far North
Far North (2009) by Marcel Theroux, in which the world is largely uninhabitable due to climate change. However, the novel implies that scientists got it wrong and that it was our actions combating global warming that irrevocably altered the climate.

Forty Signs of Rain
Forty Signs of Rain (2004) is the first book in the hard science fiction "Science in the Capital" trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. (The following two novels are Fifty Degrees Below (2005) and Sixty Days and Counting (2007).) Robinson has been nicknamed the "Master of Disaster" for his description of natural disasters based partly on the contents of this book.The book tells the importance that the disasters are going to take with the climate change.

written by raphael gobe and baptiste massin