Graeme Gibson, the Canadian author of books including Five Legs and Perpetual Motion and longtime partner of author Margaret Atwood, has died. He was 85.
His publisher, Penguin Random House, announced his death in a press release Wednesday.
Atwood said in a statement that her longtime love “went out on a high.”
“We are devastated by the loss of Graeme, our beloved father, grandfather, and spouse, but we are happy that he achieved the kind of swift exit he wanted and avoided the decline into further dementia that he feared. He had a lovely last few weeks, and he went out on a high, surrounded by love, friendship and appreciation. We are grateful for his wise, ethical, and committed life.”
Climate Challenges in Game of Thrones
Cli-Fi: About how fiction films about climate disasters can make us imagine the unimaginable.
Risk and potential disasters are something people must imagine. But risk is often unimaginable. Until the disaster is a fact and it is too late to prevent it.
Scientific fact production on the climate, including through the UN Climate Panel, has documented the need for political action. But that has obviously not been enough. The UN is therefore holding a summit on the climate crisis on September 23.
At the same time, a recent survey on global climate awareness from YouGov shows that respondents in Western countries are not very concerned about climate. And Norway is among the worst in the West.
But young people around the world imagine a globe destroyed by political paralysis. They therefore went on a global climate strike on 20-27. September, fronted by Greta Thunberg.
Can Cli-Fi, popular cultural climate fiction, contribute to effective political communication about "the unimaginable"?
A movie or series that reaches and mobilizes a large audience uses both fact and fiction, or "faction".
Manufacturers dictate to tell a captivating story while conveying knowledge of a phenomenon. Thus, they create "edutainment"; learning through entertainment. It is a difficult balancing act.
Movies, documentaries and comics series usually do not reach a large audience.
If we use "profitability" (US BoxOffice gross earnings) as a criterion, it turns out that the climate crisis is central to only two of the 250 most popular films.
Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" from 2014 and Roland Emmerich's "The Day After Tomorrow" from 2004 are ranked 231 and 235 respectively.
The climate message is almost clear in Emmerich's action-packed film. Here we are witnessing a sudden global climate disaster as it happens. It may sound like a "junk" disaster movie. Fiction with climate as a convenient theme for creating entertainment.
Not unexpectedly, Emmerich was criticized for just that. But he managed to engage and make the audience easier to imagine the unimaginable. The film had a documented effect on viewers' perceptions of the dangers of climate change and their motivation to do something about it.
Another example is the HBO series "Game of Thrones" (GoT) that captivates people around the world. It takes place in a fantasy universe and Westeros has not even had an industrial revolution that could initiate man-made climate change.
Equally, many have interpreted the series as incorporating the climate challenges of our time as an important part of the story.
The GoT shows the denial of external existential threats and the difficulty of working together to stop them. An army of zombie-like White Walkers is outside the wall. But they eventually need to go through and threaten to wipe out all of Westeros.
Already at the beginning of the series, the capital receives reports of them, but denies that they exist at all. Towards the end, irrefutable documentation is presented, when it is almost too late to prevent the disaster.
We also hear right from the start about the slow climate change from multi-annual summer to multi-annual winter. But only the Starks clan seems to care. Next to The Wildlings, climate refugees who want inside the wall.
Boxer’s author George R.R. Martin also noted that GoT is "a perfect metaphor for understanding climate change"
He almost sounds like an echo of Greta Thunberg when he notes that other issues are important, but not if we all end up dead and our cities swallowed by the sea.
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Risk and potential disasters are something people must imagine. But risk is often unimaginable. Until the disaster is a fact and it is too late to prevent it.
Scientific fact production on the climate, including through the UN Climate Panel, has documented the need for political action. But that has obviously not been enough. The UN is therefore holding a summit on the climate crisis on September 23.
At the same time, a recent survey on global climate awareness from YouGov shows that respondents in Western countries are not very concerned about climate. And Norway is among the worst in the West.
But young people around the world imagine a globe destroyed by political paralysis. They therefore went on a global climate strike on 20-27. September, fronted by Greta Thunberg.
Can Cli-Fi, popular cultural climate fiction, contribute to effective political communication about "the unimaginable"?
A movie or series that reaches and mobilizes a large audience uses both fact and fiction, or "faction".
Manufacturers dictate to tell a captivating story while conveying knowledge of a phenomenon. Thus, they create "edutainment"; learning through entertainment. It is a difficult balancing act.
Movies, documentaries and comics series usually do not reach a large audience.
If we use "profitability" (US BoxOffice gross earnings) as a criterion, it turns out that the climate crisis is central to only two of the 250 most popular films.
Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" from 2014 and Roland Emmerich's "The Day After Tomorrow" from 2004 are ranked 231 and 235 respectively.
The climate message is almost clear in Emmerich's action-packed film. Here we are witnessing a sudden global climate disaster as it happens. It may sound like a "junk" disaster movie. Fiction with climate as a convenient theme for creating entertainment.
Not unexpectedly, Emmerich was criticized for just that. But he managed to engage and make the audience easier to imagine the unimaginable. The film had a documented effect on viewers' perceptions of the dangers of climate change and their motivation to do something about it.
Another example is the HBO series "Game of Thrones" (GoT) that captivates people around the world. It takes place in a fantasy universe and Westeros has not even had an industrial revolution that could initiate man-made climate change.
Equally, many have interpreted the series as incorporating the climate challenges of our time as an important part of the story.
The GoT shows the denial of external existential threats and the difficulty of working together to stop them. An army of zombie-like White Walkers is outside the wall. But they eventually need to go through and threaten to wipe out all of Westeros.
Already at the beginning of the series, the capital receives reports of them, but denies that they exist at all. Towards the end, irrefutable documentation is presented, when it is almost too late to prevent the disaster.
We also hear right from the start about the slow climate change from multi-annual summer to multi-annual winter. But only the Starks clan seems to care. Next to The Wildlings, climate refugees who want inside the wall.
Boxer’s author George R.R. Martin also noted that GoT is "a perfect metaphor for understanding climate change"
He almost sounds like an echo of Greta Thunberg when he notes that other issues are important, but not if we all end up dead and our cities swallowed by the sea.
also read
Climate and environment are important in local elections
also read
Think like us youngsters
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Today's young people choose: - Everything fades in relation to climate and the environment
Cli-Fi: About how fiction films about climate disasters can make us imagine the unimaginable.
Risk and potential disasters are something people must imagine. But risk is often unimaginable. Until the disaster is a fact and it is too late to prevent it.
Scientific fact production on the climate, including through the UN Climate Panel, has documented the need for political action. But that has obviously not been enough. The UN is therefore holding a summit on the climate crisis on September 23.
At the same time, a recent survey on global climate awareness from YouGov shows that respondents in Western countries are not very concerned about climate. And Norway is among the worst in the West.
But young people around the world imagine a globe destroyed by political paralysis. They therefore went on a global climate strike on 20-27. September, fronted by Greta Thunberg.
Can Cli-Fi, popular cultural climate fiction, contribute to effective political communication about "the unimaginable"?
A movie or series that reaches and mobilizes a large audience uses both fact and fiction, or "faction".
Manufacturers dictate to tell a captivating story while conveying knowledge of a phenomenon. Thus, they create "edutainment"; learning through entertainment. It is a difficult balancing act.
Movies, documentaries and comics series usually do not reach a large audience.
If we use "profitability" (US BoxOffice gross earnings) as a criterion, it turns out that the climate crisis is central to only two of the 250 most popular films.
Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" from 2014 and Roland Emmerich's "The Day After Tomorrow" from 2004 are ranked 231 and 235 respectively.
The climate message is almost clear in Emmerich's action-packed film. Here we are witnessing a sudden global climate disaster as it happens. It may sound like a "junk" disaster movie. Fiction with climate as a convenient theme for creating entertainment.
Not unexpectedly, Emmerich was criticized for just that. But he managed to engage and make the audience easier to imagine the unimaginable. The film had a documented effect on viewers' perceptions of the dangers of climate change and their motivation to do something about it.
Another example is the HBO series "Game of Thrones" (GoT) that captivates people around the world. It takes place in a fantasy universe and Westeros has not even had an industrial revolution that could initiate man-made climate change.
Equally, many have interpreted the series as incorporating the climate challenges of our time as an important part of the story.
The GoT shows the denial of external existential threats and the difficulty of working together to stop them. An army of zombie-like White Walkers is outside the wall. But they eventually need to go through and threaten to wipe out all of Westeros.
Already at the beginning of the series, the capital receives reports of them, but denies that they exist at all. Towards the end, irrefutable documentation is presented, when it is almost too late to prevent the disaster.
We also hear right from the start about the slow climate change from multi-annual summer to multi-annual winter. But only the Starks clan seems to care. Next to The Wildlings, climate refugees who want inside the wall.
Boxer’s author George R.R. Martin also noted that GoT is "a perfect metaphor for understanding climate change"
He almost sounds like an echo of Greta Thunberg when he notes that other issues are important, but not if we all end up dead and our cities swallowed by the sea.
also read
Climate and environment are important in local elections
also read
Think like us youngsters
also read
Today's young people choose: - Everything fades in relation to climate and the environment
ADVERTISEMENT
Risk and potential disasters are something people must imagine. But risk is often unimaginable. Until the disaster is a fact and it is too late to prevent it.
Scientific fact production on the climate, including through the UN Climate Panel, has documented the need for political action. But that has obviously not been enough. The UN is therefore holding a summit on the climate crisis on September 23.
At the same time, a recent survey on global climate awareness from YouGov shows that respondents in Western countries are not very concerned about climate. And Norway is among the worst in the West.
But young people around the world imagine a globe destroyed by political paralysis. They therefore went on a global climate strike on 20-27. September, fronted by Greta Thunberg.
Can Cli-Fi, popular cultural climate fiction, contribute to effective political communication about "the unimaginable"?
A movie or series that reaches and mobilizes a large audience uses both fact and fiction, or "faction".
Manufacturers dictate to tell a captivating story while conveying knowledge of a phenomenon. Thus, they create "edutainment"; learning through entertainment. It is a difficult balancing act.
Movies, documentaries and comics series usually do not reach a large audience.
If we use "profitability" (US BoxOffice gross earnings) as a criterion, it turns out that the climate crisis is central to only two of the 250 most popular films.
Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" from 2014 and Roland Emmerich's "The Day After Tomorrow" from 2004 are ranked 231 and 235 respectively.
The climate message is almost clear in Emmerich's action-packed film. Here we are witnessing a sudden global climate disaster as it happens. It may sound like a "junk" disaster movie. Fiction with climate as a convenient theme for creating entertainment.
Not unexpectedly, Emmerich was criticized for just that. But he managed to engage and make the audience easier to imagine the unimaginable. The film had a documented effect on viewers' perceptions of the dangers of climate change and their motivation to do something about it.
Another example is the HBO series "Game of Thrones" (GoT) that captivates people around the world. It takes place in a fantasy universe and Westeros has not even had an industrial revolution that could initiate man-made climate change.
Equally, many have interpreted the series as incorporating the climate challenges of our time as an important part of the story.
The GoT shows the denial of external existential threats and the difficulty of working together to stop them. An army of zombie-like White Walkers is outside the wall. But they eventually need to go through and threaten to wipe out all of Westeros.
Already at the beginning of the series, the capital receives reports of them, but denies that they exist at all. Towards the end, irrefutable documentation is presented, when it is almost too late to prevent the disaster.
We also hear right from the start about the slow climate change from multi-annual summer to multi-annual winter. But only the Starks clan seems to care. Next to The Wildlings, climate refugees who want inside the wall.
Boxer’s author George R.R. Martin also noted that GoT is "a perfect metaphor for understanding climate change"
He almost sounds like an echo of Greta Thunberg when he notes that other issues are important, but not if we all end up dead and our cities swallowed by the sea.
also read
Climate and environment are important in local elections
also read
Think like us youngsters
also read
Today's young people choose: - Everything fades in relation to climate and the environment
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