‘Turning up the Heat’ A Story Device for Addressing Climate Change
A Conventional Symbol Applied to a Novel Problem
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11 min readNov 22, 2020
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Hot weather — and the many ways we’ve learned to communicate it — has come to play many important roles in our stories. We often use Heat to build a juxtaposition of worlds, communicate a character’s disorientation, or symbolize an unavoidable reality demanding our…
