{"id":371,"date":"2019-02-08T10:39:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/?p=371"},"modified":"2019-02-08T10:39:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:39:30","slug":"jim-fleming-colby-sts-was-cited-in-cnn-piece-on-clifi-at-the-movies-feb-8-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/2019\/02\/08\/jim-fleming-colby-sts-was-cited-in-cnn-piece-on-clifi-at-the-movies-feb-8-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Fleming (Colby STS) was cited in CNN piece on clifi at the movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<div class=\"m_4596649716807721841gmail-zn-body__paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #262626;font-family: CNN, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif\">Jim Fleming (Colby STS) was cited in CNN piece on clifi at the movies<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Cli-fi (climate fiction) on the big screen changes minds about real climate change,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/08\/world\/climate-change-movies-eprise\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/08\/world\/climate-change-movies-eprise\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<div class=\"m_-2305910612130360738gmail-zn-body__paragraph\">And a link to my book, &#8220;Fixing the Sky&#8221;!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_-2305910612130360738gmail-zn-body__paragraph\">Fleming, one of the world&#8217;s better-known\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/fixing-the-sky\/9780231144131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">history of science experts<\/a>\u00a0that focuses on climate change, said &#8220;Snowpiercer&#8221; was a &#8220;free airplane flick.&#8221; He watched it, ironically, on his way home from a geoengineering conference &#8220;where I had lecture on the insanity of planetary intervention.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"m_-2305910612130360738gmail-zn-body__paragraph\">He found the class conflict and the revolution on the train interesting, as (spoiler alert) was the ending. &#8220;Two survivors of the inevitable train wreck (both people of color) seem to foreshadow a new beginning and a hopeful future,&#8221; Fleming, the Charles A. Dana professor of science, technology and society at Colby College, wrote in an email. &#8220;Yet a hungry polar bear looks down on them. The film ends suddenly before the polar bear has his dinner.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-371\" data-postid=\"371\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-371 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Fleming (Colby STS) was cited in CNN piece on clifi at the movies Cli-fi (climate fiction) on the big screen changes minds about real climate change,\u00a0https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/08\/world\/climate-change-movies-eprise\/index.html And a link to my book, &#8220;Fixing the Sky&#8221;! Fleming, one of the world&#8217;s better-known\u00a0history of science experts\u00a0that focuses on climate change, said &#8220;Snowpiercer&#8221; was a &#8220;free airplane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}