Good, thoughtful interview.

Planet: Critical: "Writing A Better World" | #KimStanleyRobinson

Episode webpage: https://www.planetcritical.com/p/writing-a-better-world-kim-stanley

#MinistryForTheFuture #SciFi #CliFi #Books

I'm enjoying #KimStanleyRobinson's #MinistryForTheFuture.

If they could make travel by train, ship, and airship cheap, I would absolutely travel that way.

Kim Stanley Robinson
in conversation with Eric Rodenbeck
City Arts & Lectures from December 2022

#Climate #KimStanleyRobinson #MinistryForTheFuture

A free listen
https://www.cityarts.net/event/kim-stanley-robinson-2/

;#KimStanleyRobinson's 2020 novel #MinistryForTheFuture was a groundbreaking work: it's the tale of a detailed, plausible transition from a world on a collision course with civilization-ending climate catastrophe to one where the challenge is met, with humanity collectively deciding to save itself:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/03/ministry-for-the-future/#ksr

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So there was an #anticlimate #cabal led by the major developed countries as far back as over 50 years ago 😶

Me cries thinking even the wild scenarios in #MinistryForTheFuture might be too optimistic

#ClimateChange
#Environment
#LateStageCapitalism
#Monbiot

https://www.monbiot.com/2022/11/23/how-about-never/

Reading the brilliant #ReconsideringReparations by Femi Taiwo and noting that the tactics he supports for moving #constructivist approaches to #reparations forward are the same tactics used to alleviate the climate crisis in Kim Stanley Robinson’s hopeful speculative fiction #MinistryfortheFuture.

Loss and Damage Fund + 3rd wave Twitter migration...it's feeling a little #KimStanleyRobinson #MinistryForTheFuture

COP27 Reaches Breakthrough Agreement on New “Loss and Damage” Fund for Vulnerable Countries | UNFCCC
https://unfccc.int/news/cop27-reaches-breakthrough-agreement-on-new-loss-and-damage-fund-for-vulnerable-countries#:~:text=UN%20Climate%20Change%20News%2C%2020,UN%20Climate%20Change%20Executive%20Secretary.

@adamgreenfield @ianbetteridge @neil would you stay Kim Stanley Robinson gets that? New York 2140 and #MinistryfortheFuture, which seem like a worse case and best case scenario for speed of adaptation, & both seem enwoven with conflict.