Our Shared Storm
- 224pages
- 8 heures de lecture
Through speculative fiction, five interlocking novelettes delve into potential realities of our climate future. As we face increasingly severe weather patterns—Arctic heat waves, polar vortex winters, and frequent storms—the outlook may seem bleak. Yet, there remain choices to be made. This work blends fiction and nonfiction, utilizing speculative tools to examine five distinct climate futures shaped by our current actions. Written by Andrew Dana Hudson, a speculative-fiction author and sustainability researcher, the narratives employ a technique called “scenario thinking.” Instead of predicting a singular path, the stories present various futures reflecting significant trends and possibilities, based on climate-modeling scenarios known as Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs). Set in 2054 during the Conference of the Parties in Buenos Aires, Argentina, each narrative features a shared cast of characters, experiencing different outcomes in alternate universes. These scenarios illuminate the political, economic, and cultural implications of our climate choices—whether investments in adaptation and mitigation are realized, postponed, or abandoned. Ranging from harrowing to hopeful, the stories underscore the critical decisions we face to stabilize our planet, while experimenting with practice-based research methods to engage with climate fiction and its intersection with scientific and academic discourse.
