George R.R. Martin intended Game of Thrones to send a message about climate change

Esquire

“There is—in a very broad sense—a certain parallel there,” Martin recently told the New York Times. “The people in Westeros are fighting their individual battles over power and status and wealth. And those are so distracting them that they’re ignoring the threat of ‘winter is coming,’ which has the potential to destroy all of them and to destroy their world.”