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There was about paragraph or so spent on that realistic response, and then huge swathes dedicated to India switching to collectivized farming (a la early Soviet

There was about paragraph or so spent on that realistic response, and then huge swathes dedicated to India switching to collectivized farming (a la early Soviet Union), the world's central banks putting carbon offsets onto a blockchain, and millions of Americans willingly displacing themselves to create a giant wildlife preserve in the midwest.

ch4s3 3y ago
KSR is sliding in the direction of outright promotion of eco-fascism and I can't say it makes for good literature.
- hoseja 3y ago
  I've definitively soured on him after that dolphin chapter.
  - ch4s3 3y ago
    I can't find that part now, but there's plenty of really rotten stuff in the book.
alangibson 3y ago
> millions of Americans willingly displacing themselves As far fetched as any science fiction ever written