This paper examines a set of recent novels in which the problem of climate change is explicitly linked to global war and the security state. The next theater of war after or alongside the war on terror, they suggest, may well be an environment grown unpredictable because of human intervention. Drawing on Robert Marzec’s work on “environmentality,” it describes how novels like Tobias Buckell’s Arctic Rising (2012), Mark de Silva’s Square Wave (2016), and Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013) represent the future, past, and present of a world shaped by an “ecosecurity imaginary.” Additionally, the analysis links these narratives to scenario planning, nuclear dread, and slow violence to suggest, first, that we should expand a limited category like ‘cli-fi’ to include less obvious examples and, second, that we should consider fiction’s complicity with as well as critique of this militarized environmentalism. What is more, the analysis reveals the strong ties between this new, “hot war” and the Cold War, and identifies a shared suspicion of geo-engineering projects among contemporary writers.

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热战：气候、安全、小说

本文考察了一系列近期小说，其中气候变化问题与全球战争和安全国家明确相关。他们认为，反恐战争之后或同时发生的下一个战场很可能是由于人为干预而变得不可预测的环境。借鉴罗伯特·马泽克 (Robert Marzec) 关于“环境”的著作，它描述了托比亚斯·巴克尔 (Tobias Buckell) 的《北极崛起》(2012)、马克·德席尔瓦 (Mark de Silva) 的《方波》(2016) 和莫辛·哈米德 (Mohsin Hamid) 的《如何在崛起的亚洲致富》(2013) 等小说如何代表未来，一个由“生态安全想象”塑造的世界的过去和现在。此外，分析将这些叙述与情景规划、核恐惧和缓慢的暴力联系起来，建议首先，我们应该扩大像“cli-fi”这样的有限类别，以包括不太明显的例子，其次，我们应该考虑小说与这种军事化的环保主义的共谋和批评。此外，分析揭示了这场新的“热战”与冷战之间的密切联系，并确定了当代作家对地球工程项目的共同怀疑。