Will and Matt talk to Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy, 2312 and last year’s Ministry for the Future. They discuss reckoning with climate change, science fiction literature as an attempt to conceive of our own future’s history, and what kinds of beliefs humans might need to survive that future.
Read this a month or two ago. Still a bit unsure about the idea of carbon sequestration backed economics, but it's got a whole lot of other stuff (geo-engineering, anti-capitalist, eco-terrorism) thrown in there to make the overall thing optimistic. Who knows if it'll come to pass in the same way (I'm not seeing many moves on #PumpTheMeltwater /s, so it probably won't) , but by god did it actually make me feel hopeful about our future for once.
Rocking out at a festival in utopian immigrant friendly Zurich with my solarpunk airship captain boyfriend. 🙆 🌍 💚