Climate Fiction and Global Ethics: An SDG Perspective on Claire Vaye Watkins’ Gold Fame Citrus

Abstract

Claire Vaye Watkins’ Gold Fame Citrus is an ethically charged work of climate fiction that stages the moral crises generated by water scarcity, displacement, and ecological collapse. The lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been applied to the novel to reveal how Watkins dramatizes urgent intersections between climate action (SDG 13), clean water and sanitation (SDG 6), reduced inequalities climate fiction, sustainable development goals,(SDG 10), life on land (SDG 15), and well-being (SDG 3).An attempt has been made in this paper to highlight the primary ecological concerns like water scarcity, migration, official hitches and environmental psychology, that had been reframed by Watkins as global-ethical responsibilities. The novel explores the fragility of desert ecosystems and the impact of human activities on the environment.