Writer and anthropologist, Amitav Ghosh says that the climate crisis is a crisis of the imagination, that we are unable, at the level of literature, history and politics, to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. Yet, “climate change is outrunning us,” he says. Ghosh believes that fiction may be the best form through which we can imagine other forms of human existence. Unfortunately, stories about climate change tend to be classed as science-fiction; and “the message is essentially that writing about climate change on earth is like writing about little green men or space aliens.” So how do we approach this work? In order to feed into social change, imaginative ideas need to be shared by many minds and become a part of collective intelligence. Words by Veronica Yates for The Rights Studio #climatechange #climateaction #clifi #climatefiction #scifi #imagination #artivism