2022-05-18

你爱看电影吗？你喜欢大制作的灾难片吗？如果喜欢，那你可能会对 “气候变化类虚构作品（climate fiction，简称 cli-fi）” 感兴趣。这类作品主要围绕哪个题材进行创作？

If you could travel back in time, which period of history would you visit? It's a great question to ask your friends, and time travel is the subject of many science fiction films. Of course, sci-fi is familiar to most of us, but what is cli-fi? The simple answer is climate fiction – a genre1 which focuses on the subject of climate change.

Many of the cli-fi examples we watch tend to be disaster films. It could be solar flares2, ice ages devastating3 the planet, extreme flooding swamping the Earth with water, or super-storms that threaten life as we know it. While films and novels of this genre are often subject to the typical tropes of a hero or heroine battling to save the day, what sets it apart from most sci-fi films is that the plots will often draw on plausible4 outcomes in the present or near future.

Climate change and the potential threats have long been established. Some believe t