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lizziekam 's review for:
The Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Intense but ultimately optimistic book about what it would take to turn the tide on climate change. Spoiler alert: it's the end of capitalism. Also geoengineering and rewilding and paying out people for their petro-wealth and blimps and massive investment in clean energy (and terrorism and mass death) and getting the central banks on board to invest in the long term future of civilization. It's like a lengthy (lengthy but absorbing and fast-reading) thought experiment. This is not a character-rich book although the handful of characters are sympathetic and they ground this book in humanity. There is a lot of econ in this book, and I admit that I skimmed those parts since I don't have a lot of background in the subject but this would be one heck of a way to learn about it if you wanted to.