I also enjoyed the poem, “A Child Gambles in Petroleum Country” by Deb O’Rourke which portrays the earth as blue marble gambled away in a game. Tyler, which is told in journalistic style quotes by people from the future. One recent story from their site that stood out to me was, “Exiled Together: The Faces of Contemporary New York” by Marcus M.
Little Blue Marble is an online literary journal that publishes articles, fiction, and poetry focused on the issue of climate change, especially speculative fiction. Some spotlight climate fiction (speculative stories about climate change) while others celebrate the Earth as it is in the present and urge us to preserve it. So here are 5 lit mags I’ve read recently that have an environmental focus. Just reading stories or poems is not enough, of course, but stories can serve as reminders of what matters to us, warning what the future may hold, and keeping us grounded in our values. You can care about the environment and advocate for political change while also reading apocalyptic narratives or poems about the ephemeral beauty of spring. I realized it doesn’t have to be an either/or proposition. However, I remained drawn to these narratives not because they claim to create any sort of social or ecological change, but because they still fascinate me. Maybe some blockbusters like The Day After Tomorrow or WALL-E, could influence the public opinion on climate change and the environment, but what would writing an essay here, or a short story there really do?
How would reading or writing environmental narratives change anything? I wondered. In my literary studies, I was drawn to ecocriticism, which examines the portrayal of the natural world in literature.Įventually, I became cynical of these analyses. What drew me to environmental science courses was not just the plight of our planet, which I do care about despite not having the most climate-friendly habits, but the narratives embedded in our discussions of the environment- the apocalyptic scenarios, the stories of how places change over time, how ecosystems evolve and adapt. I have a confession: in college, I was an environmental science minor, but I’ve never really used the environmental knowledge I gained from those courses, nor have I lived a particularly eco-friendly lifestyle.
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