How to solve the climate crisis. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
I have just finished reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s new novel, The Ministry for the Future. It is a novel that takes place in the near-future; it starts a few years from now and continue until around 2050. It is about the severe impacts of climate change, the changing environment which will cause more heat stress and extreme weather and climate events.
The enormity of global warming can be daunting and dispiriting. What can one person, or even one nation, do on their own to slow and reverse climate change? Not much. But the people in the Ministry for the Future, a UN agency founded in order to enforce the Paris Agreement and other international climate accords, are committed to do whatever it takes, to use all available tools - social, political and economic - to avert climate change and strengthen resilience.
In a way, The Ministry For the Future is almost like a guidebook to how we could overcome the catastrophic impact of global warming. It is is dedicated to Fredric Jameson, the American literary critic and philosopher, known for his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism.
It is one of Robinson’s best books and the best book I read this year.