| dc.description.abstract | As a speculative mode of narration, science fiction is often concerned with the environment, and the genre enables authors to criticise elements of society and explore potential future consequences of present day politics. Saci Lloyd imagines the potential outcome of climate change in her two dystopian novels for young adults, The Carbon Diaries 2015 and The Carbon Diaries 2017. The novels deal with the consequences of climate change in the UK, where a mandatory carbon rationing-system has been implemented, and they also explore the consequences of climate change on a global level. This analysis considers how these two young adult novels discuss issues such as gender-roles, nationalism, extremism, capitalism, and privatisation, which are disguised, to some degree, under climate change as an overarching conflict. Many of Lloyd’s speculations are similar to tendencies that can be seen in Anglophone societies, and one can question whether these works are closer to realism than science fiction. The novels have considerable potential for education and developing an environmental consciousness among young readers. | nb_NO |
