Symbiosis of Scientific Rationality and Humanistic Care Literary Transformation and Values of Climate Science Narration in The Long Summer

Abstract

In the context of the Anthropocene, the global outbreak of the climate crisis has made the integration of climate science and literary expression an inevitable trend of the times. Scientific rationality provides cognitive support for ecological governance, while humanistic care infuses spiritual warmth into ecological practice. Their symbiosis has become the core value pursuit of contemporary climate fiction. Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Long Summer takes rigorous climate science as its narrative foundation, breaking through the traditional perception of “opposition between science and literature”. It organically integrates climate scientific knowledge, scientific practice with humanistic narration and ecological ethics, accomplishing a creative literary transformation of climate science narration. From an interdisciplinary research perspective, this paper combines theories of science communication, ecocriticism and narratology to systematically analyze the pathways of literary transformation of climate science narration in The Long Summer, interpret the symbiotic logic of scientific rationality and humanistic care, and explore its multiple values in science communication, literary innovation and ecological practice. Research shows that Robinson realizes the transformation of climate science from a “knowledge system” to “literary expression” through concrete narration, humanized characterization and value integration, constructing a narrative mode with “scientific rationality as the backbone and humanistic care as the soul”. This not only highlights the objectivity and seriousness of climate science, but also conveys the humanistic idea of “symbiosis between humans and nature”, providing important reference and ideological support for contemporary climate fiction writing, science communication and ecological governance.