What is Climate Fiction--a definition > Likes and Comments

Sorry for double posting in a sub-category in this group.

I've been trying to refine what makes an actual climate fiction book rather than simply have climate change offer a premise for a story (i.e., premise vs. subject). Here's my latest attempt:

"Too often, climate fiction fails to bridge the planetary-scale climate crisis with the human scale of everyday life. Climate fiction should focus on human stories that connect readers directly to our present challenges."

I've written a number of posts on my website davidguenette.com on the question of what climate fiction is. I'd love to get a conversation going that seeks to define the climate fiction genre, although this may be a fool's errand considering that neither Amazon or BISAC have such a genre (another of my posts!).

Hello David.
It is unfortunate that Amazon doesn't yet present climate fiction as a genre, especially in light of the ever growing realities being observed and experienced across the world as this will be driving increasing creative works in the coming years.
I feel that climate fiction becomes a valid and distinct genre when climate collapse is not simply the stage on which a story takes place.
Changes in climate and other environmental conditions should form part of the explanation and pressure points for what unfolds as the story progresses. They help to create and clarify the resulting framework in which a particular technological, political and psychological future becomes possible as well as assisting in the reasoning of the moral choices depicted within the story. It may be a note to consider that whilst Climate Fiction connects planetary change with one or more lived consequence, such consequences can be viewed through human, non-human or post-human perspectives.