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culuriel 's review for:
The Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson
It’s a lot of different books skillfully blended together. Robinson details the societal attitude shifts, currency shifts, government shifts, and technological shifts necessary to actual bring our greenhouse gas emissions under control enough to not just mitigate the climate disaster but end it, eventually.
Note: Robinson gives specific examples of eco-terrorism, and their resultant effect of motivating change. The very specific actions and technologies that would make these attacks necessary I don’t think exist, and not sure if lasting change could come about from eco-terrorism. My suspicion is that the powers-that-be would just double down on the eco disaster, and crush any violent movements against greenhouse-gas heavy institutions. Also not sure an anti-fossil fuel coup would ever work in Saudi Arabia. But this is speculative fiction, so Robinson gets to have his way in order to save the world.
Note: Robinson gives specific examples of eco-terrorism, and their resultant effect of motivating change. The very specific actions and technologies that would make these attacks necessary I don’t think exist, and not sure if lasting change could come about from eco-terrorism. My suspicion is that the powers-that-be would just double down on the eco disaster, and crush any violent movements against greenhouse-gas heavy institutions. Also not sure an anti-fossil fuel coup would ever work in Saudi Arabia. But this is speculative fiction, so Robinson gets to have his way in order to save the world.