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Environment

How dystopia hammers home the reality of climate change

by The Daily Eye Team April 20 2015, 4:42 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 49 secs

It?s so easy not to really listen when the media (and science teachers) go on about climate change ? but the cause of most dystopian societies in books, from The Hunger Games to Divergent, is invariably huge environmental disaster. Time to read, sit up, learn and then take action before its too late

Climate change. We learn about it in school. We see it on the news and nature shows. We?re told it?s coming and it will be irreversible if we don?t do something. But we?re young. Most of us don?t listen, do we? We?re the internet, smart phone, computer generation and most of us aren?t clued up on renewable energy or carbon footprints.

And even when we know all about them, we often don?t think they affect us. I was like that, when I was younger. And then, then I read my first environmental disaster novel - a dystopian.

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