{"id":6602,"date":"2019-11-15T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6602"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","slug":"scarier-than-fiction-climate-worry-driving-cli-fi-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/15\/scarier-than-fiction-climate-worry-driving-cli-fi-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarier Than Fiction: Climate Worry Driving &#8216;Cli-Fi&#8217; Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Daily Nation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine a world where\nstorms inundate coastal megacities, entire species become extinct in the blink\nof an eye, and conflicts are fought over dwindling natural resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not so difficult in\n2019, perhaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a year of\ndevastating extreme weather and worldwide unrest over the emergency posed by\nclimate change, topics that used to belong to the realm of science fiction are\nfinding their way into mainstream storytelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in 2004, Roland\nEmmerich&#8217;s disaster flick &#8220;The Day After Tomorrow&#8221; depicted a global\nweather catastrophe, with coastal areas devoured by the sea amid general\nmeteorological mayhem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just 15 years on, scenes from the movie resemble images taken from real-life weather events today. And as climate change makes superstorms, flooding, wildfires and droughts more likely, a new genre is gaining fatalistic fans the world over: &#8220;Cli-fi&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/lifestyle\/health\/climate-worry-driving-cli-fi-boom\/1954202-5349526-hwa26s\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Imagine a world where storms inundate coastal megacities, entire species become extinct in the blink of an eye, and conflicts are fought over dwindling natural resources. Not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}