In the novella “Emergency Skin”, written by N. K. Jemisin, an explorer , h ailing from an exoplanet colony, is sent back to Earth on a mission to gather some valuable biological material. The plutocrats in question , mostly those responsible for the slow yet evident walk towards the environmental and socio-political crisis , have abandoned the Earth to live on their own distant planet. The film ‘Snowpiercer’, produced in 2013, portrays a world where a failed climate-change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe) . Within this confined space the system of bourgeoise and the proletariats remains . In Jemisin’s work, one can already one can note the play on the binary of the capitalists versus the subalterns as Al claims, “ There was not enough collective innovation or strength of will between them to solve the problems Tellus faced, and so we did the only merciful thing we could: we left t...