Ashfall and the Natural Disaster YA Novel

In this era of climate change, I sometimes wonder why there aren't more "what happens after we screw up the atmosphere" books. Then again, maybe there are. All those books that take place after society crumbles - maybe the situation that caused society to crumble was global warming.

The few books I've read that explore the world after a sudden climate shift - namely, Ashfall and The World as We Knew It - involve a climactic event that had nothing to do with humans. In Ashfall, the book I read most recently, the event in question is a supervolcano eruption that fills the sky with ash and causes a volcanic winter.

The book had gotten very good reviews, so I must say I was disappointed. I found the main character rather whiny, even in the face of his repeated claims that he had changed sooooo much since the eruption. I also found the action to be rather flat - a whole book of two teenagers trudging through the show and trying not to get shot. There weren't many surprises or many moments where I could barely wait to see what happens next. Reading the book seemed like slogging through the ashy snow alongside the characters, and it didn't do it for me.

I was hoping it would at least make me think about something - for example, what would we do in the face of a major climactic disaster, provided it was so sudden we didn't have time to prepare? But honestly, it didn't. The book stuck so closely to the main character's journey through the snow that it didn't even touch on how the world was reacting. It mentioned VERY briefly that his hometown was characterized as a "red zone," and the overcrowded refugee camp where he ended up was a "yellow zone." But we didn't really find out what that meant, except that it restricted people's movements.

I found myself wishing the story to be told from a different perspective, or at least to have other perspectives added. Maybe it would have been more compelling if the character was the son of a government official who was trying to figure out how to deal with the disaster, for example. Or maybe if they had spent more time in the refugee camp, where regulations kept people from helping as much as they wanted to. That was the part I found most compelling.

I wonder if books will start to come out in the upcoming years that focus on the world after climate change, or that involve that particular element. I'd like to get some comments and discussions going on here, so I put to you this question - what would you like to see in a post-climate change dystopian book? Have you read any? What questions did they invoke?

Thanks in advance for sharing!