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While reading “The Ministry for the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson, I find myself wondering if this book should be required reading at #COP28

The story is fiction, of course. But it’s also highly informed & quite believable (so far). And it’s set in the not too distant future. #books #ClimateChange

#books #climatechange #COP28
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Vojtech Tlaskal
Vojtech Tlaskal
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see his opinion on "Paying Ourselves To Decarbonize" in @noemamag

https://www.noemamag.com/paying-ourselves-to-decarbonize/


Paying Ourselves To Decarbonize - NOEMA

As we transition to a green economy, we must compensate petro-states for their lost income. Otherwise, the world economy will collapse like a house of cards.
NOEMA
@Noema Magazine
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J.H.Noyes
J.H.Noyes
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India is at the 'dig shelters' stage of climate preparedness. How much ventilated underground shelter space is needed for 1.3 billion people?
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Leo Ré Jorge
Leo Ré Jorge
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The first chapter of this book is probably the most realistic "climate horror" sequence that has been put to paper. It's so incredibly despairing and at the same time rings so likely
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bytebro
bytebro
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I'm about half way through it right now, and in my own opinion, it should be required reading in all schools as well. Superbly researched, very well written, and very very scary.
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Nelson Chu Pavlosky
Nelson Chu Pavlosky
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While "The Ministry for the Future" had a very strong opening, I do not feel it is a good blueprint for climate action in the real world. Here's my spoileriffic review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/skyfaller/review/381179/s/compelling-descriptions-of-problems-ludicrous-solutions#anchor-381179
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Peter Mendham
Peter Mendham
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I found it a very thought provoking read, I especially loved the fiction/non-fiction mix which KSR crafted beautifully. Considering how well researched some of it was, I found the crypto/blockchain bits to be a little naive, which somewhat broke the spell for me
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Jane A.
Jane A.
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Agreed, I loved it.
Yes, the first chapter is a rollercoaster of horrors. But later, it's also packed full of positive and workable ideas.
I've been recommending it to everyone I know!
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Roy Brander
Roy Brander
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Written before Modi got an extra few million killed by COVID, and suppressed the counting of them so that we literally do not know to the *nearest* *million* how many died there, but it was a couple or three million above the 1-2 million they might have gotten away with.

And Modi remains *popular*.

KSR is right that 20 million in a week would be different. Even then, other nations could wildly exaggerate the sin of India still building coal plants - in Indian media. New tactic.

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Ted Lemon
Ted Lemon
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KSR is one of my favorite authors, and this book is peak KSR. So good. The beginning was pretty harrowing, though.
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GreenerFutures
GreenerFutures
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great book that I find myself referencing quite a lot in conversations and threads.
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oli_jens
oli_jens
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I started that book but it was tough reading, the description of the heat wave was absolutely terrifying
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Cymphoni Fantastique
Cymphoni Fantastique
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oh, no... this isn't going to be like the Onion, is it? A fictional scenario, but later it becomes real?
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LordWoolamaloo
LordWoolamaloo
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it's so believable that several of my colleagues in our bookshop keep shelving it under the Environment section instead of Science Fiction 😀 I have to explain, sadly, that it is actually fictional as none of our leaders are smart enough to take ideas from it!
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Bill Seitz
Bill Seitz
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they'll love the part where all the private planes get blown up
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@huggydude🇺🇦🇮🇱🇵🇸
@huggydude🇺🇦🇮🇱🇵🇸
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I really, REALLY liked this book. There is a similar one called "The Deluge" by Stephen Markley. That one is good too!
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kechpaja
kechpaja
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I only made it about halfway through, before I simply had to stop. I _wanted_ it to be a book about fixing climate change, but it turned out to just be a book about murdering people and handwaving away the hardest parts of the problem. We can do better.
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