I think you need to widen your reading

[sawyl]

In a Guardian piece from the Hay Festival, Ian McEwan claims that novelists are guilty of neglecting climate change:

"I have been surprised there aren't more novels [about it]. It's clearly begun to have an impact on our lives already and it has huge human consequences, on a small scale, on a private level and on a geopolitical level," McEwan told the Guardian.

Which seems to me to demonstrate a quite staggering unfamiliarity with the available literature.

After all, what is Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital trilogy about if not the personal, political and scientific responses to climate change? Or how about Liz Jensen's The Rapture? Or Sarah Moss' Cold Earth? Or Stephen Baxter's Flood? Or if those are too science fictional or too genre for a serious novelist to bother his head with, what about Margaret please-don't-call-it-sf Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood. Or, if both of those are too recent, how about Ballard's The Drowned World? Or Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes?

To be fair to McEwan, none of the other authors questioned by the Guardian acquit themselves any better, but it gives the impression of someone extrapolating from their own ignorance. A bit like someone who reads nothing but space opera claiming that they are surprised that there aren't more comedies about the sex lives of middle-class professionals...