Using Nixon’s concept of slow violence and LeMenager’s emphasis on the everyday Anthropocene, we notice the imminent destruction caused by environmental degradation, whose effects become unacknowledged as it unfolds. Once the adverse effects of climate become catastrophically irreversible, they become the main focus of the public eye – the new hot topic. At that point, the “small” issues must be so big because so much time has been wasted. Climate fiction “Cli-fi” serves to help reclaim lost time by incorporating these events into personal, collective stories that resonate with people on an emotional scale, bringing the audience’s focus to the unseen impacts of climate change. 

Novels focus on the lives of everyday people, which reveals how climate change affects people casually yet profoundly. Stephanie LeMenager argues that the everyday Anthropocene allows readers to place themselves in these imaginative yet semi-realistic scenarios – god forbid they happen one day – to work and educate themselves and become aware of the hardships others face globally due to climatic and environmental changes. LeMenager mentions the “abstract futurism” aspect of climate change, which, by thinking about climate change and its effects as something to happen in the future, allows people to prevent/protect the future ahead of time. “Own explorations for reseeding our home world,’ for making refuges for those threatened by displacement and extinction.” (LeMenager 7) People often disregard what Not everyone is aware of the Anthropocene, but in a sense, that is because what is happening is not affecting them in their everyday lives. LeMenager also mentions how human civilization has developed a strong understanding of the world through literature, history, and other scientific advancements. This accumulated knowledge is vital to changing the world around us, “If we are going to refuse to let ourselves sink into the futility of life without memory, then we must not lose our few thousand years of hard-won knowledge, accumulated at great cost and against great odds.” (LeMenager 18) Not everyone will be aware and knowledgeable enough to prevent climate change; climate change does not happen only in extreme weather events or distant places. Novels can help describe the little bits of their daily existence through small details, which raises awareness in various ways, helping prevent catastrophes, and is still better than not doing anything for the environment/causing significant damage. 

Nixon’s focus on the representational challenges of slow violence with LeMenager’s insight into the power of genre to capture the everyday novels offers a powerful narrative for exploring the profound, long-term consequences of climate change and humanizing its abstract threats. Nixon introduces slow violence as almost invisible damage done by climate change needs narrative forms that “render apprehensible.” This gradual destruction brings attention to what he calls “uneventful violence” (Nixon 2.), which can be viewed as fiction in the sense of predicting what might happen to the future and utilizing the descriptions of disastrous events in fiction to plan what to do and prevent such disasters from taking place in the future. Nixon also emphasizes the role of fiction, which engages with “the temporal dispersion of slow violence” and devises ways to “render them apprehensible to the senses” (Nixon 5.)​ Most of the time, what catches the eye of the public is not limited to newspapers or other news sources but can be made attractive to expand on the subtle effects of these topics and draw the viewers to what Nixon calls “layered invisibility.” “It is here that writers, filmmakers, and digital activists may play a mediating role in helping counter the layered invisibility that results from insidious threats, from temporal protractedness, and from the fact that the afflicted are people whose quality of life—and often whose very existence—is of indifferent interest to the corporate media (Nixon 18.) The public only pays attention to urgent issues, ignoring those suffering the effects of slow violence in the global south, less developed, politically powerless communities. 

By taking into account both LeMenager and Nixon’s points of view, we often disregard what is going on in the world around us; slow violence is a fundamental concept; people just do not have a sense of urgency when they hear the news run about environmental damage causing major hidden crises, the voices of marginalized communities are just as important as those in a more privileged part of the world. Instead, because these people are in less privileged parts of the world, we should speak up for them, advocate for their rights, and through writing – despite incorporating a fictional aspect – let the world know and educate ourselves and others about the future because if we do not protect the planet, no one else will.