BY PETER MAKWANYA AS climate change impacts negatively and continues to establish its footprints throughout the world, earning itself an interdisciplinary description, it, therefore, requires collaborative and multisectoral approaches. One of the disciplines that can be harnessed to provide holistic intervention is environmental literature. This includes poetry, short stories, novels, drama and the arts in the broad network of ecocriticism. People need to change their unsustainable behaviours and stories which promote environmental destruction, and stay in a state of preparedness through participating in environmental literature, from childhood. This includes participating in learning approaches through reading, new media technologies and interactive online platforms as empowering tools. Although environmental literature appeals to a broad section of society, it is instrumental and significant in placing the child at the centre of pedagogy, with writers, teachers and scholars of the environment, playing leading and transformative roles. The learning experiences need to witness and culminate in life-long skills realisation through interacting with environmental literature from a tender age to adulthood. Each stage of academic growth should realise how much environmental literature impacts positively on life-building as a community of practice. In the framework of environmental literature, as put forward by Glotfelty (1996), ecocriticism studies the relationship between literature and the physical environment. In this regard, ecocriticism operates in the same way as Ecolinguistics and contrasts in that both discourse communities use language and the environment as transformative pillars. Ecocriticism explores the relationship between language and the environment. Ecolinguistics is viewed as the study of how discourses about the natural environment potentially influence human perceptions of the environment and their interactions with it. However, this discussion is not focusing on both ecocriticism and ecolinguistics, as it seeks to interrogate ecocriticism in the broad network of environmental literature, in empowering children and the wide readership, to change lives, empower communities, build strong institutions and resilience, while respecting the environment. Environmental literature becomes a more comprehensive and exhaustive way of articulating environmental values, especially in literal texts. The instrumental nature of environmental literature is that it empowers stakeholders mostly using pedagogy, and establishes sustainable value chains in the framework of value addition. Therefore, environmental literature as a solution to reading deficiencies seeks to close the gap created by the fast dying reading culture. With the advent of the new  technology and vast social media networks, environmental literature can be integrated and harmonised so that not only the book is the point of reference. In order to nurture a wide range of voices in transformative ways and influence the most needed climate actions for resili