The Future is Fiction | Julie Dalton | TEDxTufts

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In her TEDxTufts talk “The Future is Fiction,” Julie Carrick Dalton illustrates the importance of collaboration between climate fiction writers and scientists. She highlights how science fiction authors such as Jules Verne and E.E. Smith imagined technologies and circumstances that later became reality, demonstrating the power of fiction to anticipate and shape the future. Drawing upon both literary history and her personal experiences with deforestation and forest preservation, Dalton demonstrates how storytelling incites meaningful discourse and action. Climate fiction authors explore not only the environmental, but ethical, political, and emotional repercussions of climate change. Through her talk, Dalton encourages engagement with the climate fiction genre and dialogue between the arts and sciences to find creative and lasting solutions to the climate crisis. Julie Carrick Dalton is the award-winning author of The Last Beekeeper, Waiting for the Night Song, and The Forest Becomes H

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