The Ministry for the Future
*planted: 06/08/2022last tended: 05/09/2022
- A
- book
- Author
- Kim Stanley Robinson
Paints an incredibly grim picture of a world experiencing climate breakdown and the political ramifications. The opening chapter of a deadly heatwave in India is absolutely brutal. This is what climate crisis means.
Lots of didactic bits along the way. Some reviews say these are a bit tedious, but I've found them fairly positive so far - you learn from them. It does have a pretty stilted narrative flow as a result though.
It is hard science-fiction. So much that you might call it scientific utopianism. Though I don't know how much Robinson actively wants things to play out this way. (e.g. is he down with the acts of eco-terrorism or just thinks it will likely happen regardless).
1. Timeline
2. Elsewhere
2.1. In my garden
Notes that link to this note (AKA backlinks).
- Arctic permafrost
- International Monetary Fund
- periodization
- Disaster communism
- 2,000-Watt Society
- Sovereignty
- 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo
- carbon coin
- Gross National Happiness
- 2022-08-18
- 2022-08-30
- Effecting change
- Earth after climate collapse
- Happy Planet Index
- Tragedy of the Time Horizon
- Some books I've read
- India
- Arctic ice cap
- equality
- Bank of England
- GND Summer Book club
- Gini coefficient
- ocean acidification
- The Art and Science of Communism, Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez, Phil Neel)
- Our feelings are not just biological, but also social and cultural and therefore historical
- Kerala
- 2022-08-06
- Wet-bulb temperature
- Climate Leviathan with Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- 2024-02-19
- Vandana Shiva
- Gilets jaunes
- violence
- Structural adjustment program
- World Economic Forum
- Globalization
- Well-connected
- The Ministry for the Future: Climate Change, Sci Fi, and our Near Future