EA Sustain: Humanising Climate Change - Abi Daré

Abi Daré, the winner of the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize (2025) for And So I Roar - a novel that shows with unusual force how climate change is never “just” environmental, but inseparable from justice, power, education, and actual human lives. 

In And So I Roar, Daré shows how environmental breakdown is rarely experienced as an abstract crisis. Instead, its consequences are absorbed by those with the least power, who are then blamed and punished for systemic failures they did not create. The novel follows a young girl accused of “crimes” that are, in reality, the outcome of climate disruption, poverty, and entrenched social injustice.

This conversation explores why fiction can be such an effective way of opening dialogue around climate change: not because it offers easy solutions, but because it exposes how responsibility is displaced, how power operates, and how environmental harm is lived at the most personal level.