When the environment is the protagonist.

• Duna: the desert shapes religion, politics and the body (stillsuits!).

• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: the forest is poisonous and healing. The forest is purifying the soil.

• Hollow Knight: the infection spreads like a fungus through the whole kingdom.

"The highest function of ecology is understanding consequences." — Pardot Kynes, in Dune

• Reread the appendix on the ecology of Arrakis

• Compare with The Left Hand of Darkness (climate shaping culture)