Kim Stanley Robinson - What I’ve Learned since The Ministry for the Future Came Out in 2020
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- čas přidán 24. 04. 2023
- In our opinion, Kim Stanley Robinson is our greatest living science fiction writer. His more than 20 award-winning books over four decades, translated into some 26 languages, have included many highly influential, international bestselling tomes that brilliantly explore in a wide range of ways the great eco, economic and socio-political crises facing our species, yet nothing had prepared him for the global explosion of interest in his visionary 2020 novel, Ministry for the Future, which projects how a possible climate-disrupted future might unfold and how the world might respond meaningfully. It’s also chock full of brilliant science and wildy imaginative ways humanity steps up. Among other results, he was invited by the UN to speak at COP-26 in Glasgow. Stan offers us his overview of where we currently stand in relation to the climate crisis.
Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of about twenty books, including the internationally bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently Red Moon, New York 2140, and The Ministry for the Future. He was part of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program in 1995 and 2016, and a featured speaker at COP-26 in Glasgow as a guest of the UK government and the UN. His work has been translated into 26 languages and won many awards including the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. In 2016 asteroid 72432 was named “Kimrobinson.”
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One of the greatest thinkers and writers of our time.
Trying to discuss other issues like overshoot, tipping points, etc. Seems to be riling up the mods....gatekeepers of hopium right here.
Stanley is so well-spoken. His ability to intelligently articulate a positive pathway forward for humanity against the threat of climate change is inspiring.
Joke.....JG Ballard warned us about this 60 years ago in "The Drought" and " The Drowned World" . J.G.'s prose is exquisite, can we say the same for Robinson ? I think not... WE WERE WARNED, we did nothing
30 by 30 is a meaningless shiny object to enable environmentalists to congratulate ourselves. Much of IRA is being sucked up by grifters. Regen ag is wonderful, mainly because it emphasizes action over talk, which is mostly what the climate movement is at this point.
They really dont want me to post the link to the collapse subreddit.
To listen to this you'd think things were going well and that we were actually doing things to mitigate our peril rather than just breaking promises to do so. Californian, must be high.
That is what will save us regenerating soil is where it is at😊
KSR for World President
you cannot and will not solve climate change where the value of a good is it’s embodied labour rather than it’s physical utility, where the common worker has not true control and say over their individual destiny when they are not provided for according to their needs and not their ability.
May he live long I love this guy
I have mixed feelings about the book. Many qualities: I like the dispersed format of the story, some aspects of the style, some useful reminders such as "climate change is real and caused by humans," or "we are in the sixth mass extinction," or "this is the Jevons paradox." But too many things are plain wrong. Chapter 56 in the book: "The US and several other big countries had withdrawn from the court’s jurisdiction (The Intertnational Criminal Court of The Hague) after negative rulings against their citizens." whereas in our real world: "The General Assembly (of the UN) convened a conference in Rome in June 1998, with the aim of finalizing the treaty to serve as the Court's statute. On 17 July 1998, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was adopted by a vote of 120 to seven, with 21 countries abstaining. The seven countries that voted against the treaty were China, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Qatar, the U.S., and Yemen." Quite another reality...
Needed to hear this!
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Only possible with a much lower population
is there any novel similar to it?
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Evolution or extinction? Are we able to learn to live in harmony with each other, nature and technology including AI? Sustainability not profitability. Mindfulness and self love, respect not exploitation. Our species faces a major die off, the population is passing the peak, passing a tipping point where our population goes from exponential growth to a transition to a new sustainable relationship with the ecosystem that has sustained us up until now. That downward curve can be as steep as a cliff which falls to zero, extinction, or it can begin steeply and recover as it returns to historic levels of sustainability, pre-technology levels such as pre-Columbian America. This could lead to a selection pressure that would produce a new species of hominid, speciation. The curve could be more gentle and could include technological solutions that would level off at a population that could both live more harmoniously with nature and each other and incorporate technology that would represent an evolution into a new species of technologically enhanced humanity, cyborgs. Taking life to other planets, terraforming and evolving new species of humans who could survive other planetary ecologies is another path that will require technologies including genetic engineering to reach for the stars. Managing these changes in a moral and humane way brings hope to a future that appears very scary from our selfish and ethnocentric perspectives. Keep up the good work or as John Perkins says "Dream True" instead of living like the hero of his book "Confessions of an Economic Hitman." Be blessed, you are a blessing. Aboriginal cultures have much to teach us.
I've never seen anyone more clueless