Abstract
<jats:p>The issue of climate change poses innumerable challenges to political [1], societal [2], as well as business actors [3]. Furthermore, climate change impacts negatively on people’s daily lives by affecting their health [4], food and water security [5], well-being [6], and economic stability [7]. In this light, it is hardly surprising that the issue of climate change is amply elucidated in mass media [8], visual [9] and performing arts [10] (e.g., theatre [11]), and in literary fiction [12]. In particular, the negative consequences of climate change are routinely represented in climate change fiction (cli-fi) [12]. Whilst cli-fi grows exponentially [13], little is knownabout the Australian segment of cli-fi [14]. Attempting to bridge the current research gap, this article presents a qualitative study that seeks to shed light onto how the image of climate change is portrayed in a relatively recent Australian cli-fi novel Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy [15], an acclaimed Australian novelist. The study employs an ecocritical lens to unveil the portrayal of the image of climate change in the novel. The results of the ecocritical analysis reveal that the image of climate change is represented in Wild Dark Shore by (i) extreme weather events, (ii) the rise in sea levels, (iii) coastal erosion, (iv) carbon footprint reduction, and (v) the international seed bank. These findings are further discussed and illustrated in the article. </jats:p>