![]() These events take place…in the next five years. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this crisis, the overtaxed power grid fails, leaving a vast population with neither air conditioning nor water. The Ministry for the Future is a hopeful novel, despite opening with a harrowing account of a severe heat wave in India. ‘The Ministry for the Future’ offers a vision honest to the scale of the crisis that offers a plausible path to addressing it. The staff includes professionals adept in law, economics, ecology, earth, ocean and atmospheric sciences disaster and refugee specialists and an expert in artificial intelligence. The ministry referred to in the title is a group created according to existing provisions of the Paris Climate Agreement, with the mandate to “advocate for the world’s future generations of citizens” and defend “all living creatures present and future…by promoting their legal standing and physical protection.” The composition of the ministry staff maps the dimensions of the crises we face and the means to address them. Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel, The Ministry for the Future, offers just that: a vision of the coming century honest to the scale of the crisis that offers a plausible path to addressing it. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson ![]()
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