Although The Road certainly addresses ecological issues, I would argue that it does so on a subliminal level, since it does so without relapsing to a straightforward use of ecoapocalypse.

to come of age; she is now of age

Miss Courteney […] sat down again, tho’ with some reluctance, telling his lordship that she would not be the means of disappointing him of his coffee; but that she must insist upon being permitted to withdraw in half an hour, having business of consequence upon her hands.

Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.