{"id":16065,"date":"2016-03-30T18:13:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T18:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/30\/writing-a-different-future-for-the-planet\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T18:48:07","slug":"writing-a-different-future-for-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/30\/writing-a-different-future-for-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing a different future for the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n

Climate Change Teach-in session delves into role of speculative fiction in the environmental debate<\/p>\n

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In his 2006 film “Children of Men,” director Alfonso Cuarón lays out a bleak vision of the future: nearly two decades of human infertility have left society angry, violent and hopeless.<\/p>\n

But tucked into the “extras” on the DVD of the movie is a documentary that may be even more bleak than the movie itself because it provides a non-fiction look at how climate change could lead to worldwide chaos.<\/p>\n

Called “The Possibility of Hope,” the documentary provided a riveting backdrop for discussion in “What’s Coming: Speculative Fiction and Climate Change,” one of the many compelling events held on Clark’s annual Climate Change Teach-in<\/a> March 23.<\/p>\n