This book explores the causes of the existing crises in both human and non-human worlds and searches for convenient solutions to these catastrophes. The book, with reference to ecocriticism and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy, argues that escape from the apocalyptic future foreseen on Earth through the terraformation of another planet represents the future of colonization, and we are therefore doomed to another apocalypse on another planet.
Foregrounding the distinctive tenets of the eco-ethical questioning of colonizing and terraforming Mars through the multiple perspectives in the trilogy, the book reveals that economic and political systems are identified as controlling forces in the relationship between culture and nature. Therefore, the book implies that the capitalist system is the root of catastrophes, conceived as superannuated, and can only be saved through ecologically conscious human beings. The book additionally explores the issues of postcolonial scapegoating of “the Other” for existing problems and discusses inhuman solutions such as neo-Malthusian logic. Finally, the book highlights the crucial human responsibility for the future of all living things.
