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Financialisation of Climate Futures: An Environmental Justice Analysis of Market Mechanisms in New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson

Author(s) Ms. Thankam Therese Thomas, Dr. A. Banu Priya
Country India
Abstract This article examines the intersection of global finance and ecological collapse in Kim Stanley Robinson’s speculative novel New York 2140. The novel takes place in a future Manhattan, significantly transformed by two enormous “pulses” in sea-level rise. The outcome is a “Super-Venice” in which the machinery of neoliberal capitalism has not only survived but adapted to profit from the destruction. This paper examines, from an environmental justice perspective, the ways in which the financialisation of climate change, through the development of the Intertidal Property Pricing Index, intensifies existing social inequalities. The city’s elites escape to the “sky-villages” of the dry north or the inland security of Denver, while the dispossessed majority inhabit the precarious, half-submerged buildings of the intertidal zone. The novel suggests that the market’s attempt to commodify the flood is a form of “enclosure” of the commons, where the fundamental human right to housing is squandered to the caprices of speculative capital. The article tracks the narrative threads of characters like quant-trader Franklin Garr and the residents of the MetLife tower and shows how the residents eventually manipulate the instability of the financial system to their advantage to stage a “householders’ strike”. This revolutionary act contests the hegemony of finance over the capitalist world ecology and proposes that climate justice is only achievable through the reclamation of the commons and a fundamental repudiation of market-led adaptation strategies.
Keywords Climate change, New York 2140, Financialisation, Environmental Justice, Climate Fiction, The Commons, Market Mechanisms, Urban Inequality.
Field Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On 2026-06-11
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