Ash and fires point to potential other events such as volcanic eruptions, asteroid strike, or nuclear fall-out. Technically, the climate changes, but modern fiction about AGW climate change, this is not. We do not know the source of the cataclysmic event in the novel because it is not mentioned, and without knowing, it would be hard to define the event as a climate change event. Is this climate change fiction, as is sometimes reported in media? The Road is a haunting novel about a man and boy surviving a post-apocalyptic setting - an aftermath of Mother and Mother Nature both dying. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey.
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