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Highly recommend Kim Stanley Robinson(author of Red Mars..and Blue Mars and Green Mars..the Mars trilogy) latest The Ministry For The Future. It begins with a d
by jelliclesfarm 4y ago
Highly recommend Kim Stanley Robinson(author of Red Mars..and Blue Mars and Green Mars..the Mars trilogy) latest The Ministry For The Future. It begins with a devastating imagining of how wet bulb temperature deaths might unfold.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future ( has plot spoilers)
- stevenwoo 4y agoI'm stuck about halfway, started reading another book for now. Some slight spoilers since this is still fresh in my mind - The long economic expositional passages are boring me and the use of cryptocurrency as one solution just threw me as implausible. The setup and initial attempts at solutions though is intriguing as is the thought it's going to take some other country (not USA/Western europe) to come up with solutions/be motivated to take steps, the terrorism angle seems interestingly uncomfortably close to a Ted Kaczynski or even bin Laden movement that is not explored enough in the first half (there's one mass attack that changes daily life globally).