“El, the Plastotrophs, and Me”

2021 Ilanko, Tehnuka. “El, the Plastotrophs, and Me.” Illus. Carolina Rodríguez Fuenmayor. Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors (September 14, 2021). Fix Solutions Lab. El, the Plastotrophs, and Me | Fix (grist.org). Rpt. with the author’s name as Tehnuka in Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors. Ed. Grist [Tory Stephens] (New York: The New Press, 2023), 185-194. 

The story is set in a future Aotearoa that is recovering from the impact of climate change stressing the continuing problems and the way small communities are responding. One theme is the integration of a tauwi woman (other people in Māori), like the author, into the culture, which is predominantly Māori. Māori is frequently used in the text. See the Climate Fiction Issue of Fix for essays related to Imagine 2200. The Climate Fiction Issue: How fiction can change our reality | Fix (grist.org). The Tamil Aotearoa New Zealand female author is a volcanologist on the staff of the University of Waikato.