Kim Stanley Robinson: Remembering climate change ... a message from the year 2071 | TED Countdown
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- Coming to us from 60 years in the future, legendary sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson tells the "history" of how humanity ended the climate crisis and restored the damage done to Earth's biosphere. A rousing vision of how we might unite to overcome the greatest challenge of our time.
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Kim Stanley Robinson is a renowned science fiction writer who has inspired and challenged readers for decades. His work explores complex topics such as climate change, space colonization, and the nature of consciousness, all while emphasizing the human potential to create a better world.
There's this persistent idea that there is some level of catastrophe that will eventually knock some sense into everyone. In reality, the more cataclysmic things get, the crazier humans will become.
I will be back here in 2071, all of 79.. because a beautiful earth and kind humanity is my dream and I am not going to leave without living in one
2016:nations signed the Paris Agreement, everything seems to be on progress
Thank you for helping us envision a better future.
Yea! Let's create the Ministry for the Future!
Be hopeful! As this is the only thing in store for us now.
Great summary and quite hopeful considering that the novel ended ambiguously. (There's a typo in the description. It should read 50 years.)
smart man, incredible books, i recommend his mars trilogy if your scientifically minded and interested in terraforming and the associated social dynamics
Any message in 2071 will start with "Hello, can anyone hear me?"
This is beautiful and wishful thinking.
Thanks
Ironic watching a Ted Talk on climate change, and seeing all the Bitcoin ads in the comment section.
My new favorite bedtime story.
Love your content! Stay safe everyone 🌞🧚🏽
“To be human means to care for each other and civilization means to work together to create a better life.” - film '2012'
It is good, the way to go future for our life
Great video
Wow the more invested one becomes into this topic the more impossible it seems that we do indeed pull together to solve this problem. rip
Is this quoted directly from the book "Ministry for the Future"? Because I remember a similar passage from "Aurora", where the ship computer gives this kind of an info dump about the parameters of the mission, because it doesn't know how to write a compelling narrative - which the ship officers then proceed to scold the computer for. Yes, it may be a self-aware, 4th-wall-breaking joke, but it's ultimately just a cop-out if you can't find a way to weave all of this information into the story more organically, across time. (For example, in different dialogue scenes, which admittedly is a challenge, especially when trying to avoid "as you know, Bob" exchanges.)