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The Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson
I've been reading this book for a week--a long time for me, considering I'm also on vacation. It is not an easy, light or fun read. It's long--566 pages--and very dense with ideas and counter-ideas and dystopian/utopian speculation. There's a plot, centered around titular Ministry, and characters who don't give you much backstory or development. So as a fast, can't-wait-to-see-what-happens book, this fails.
But. The book is about reversing changes to the biosphere and what happens if we don't, so it's a book about all of the lives of all of the people on the planet. It is wide-ranging, covering economic systems, political systems, technologies, crypto-currency and carbon sequestration, the internet and terrorism, just for starters. As soon as I started reading it, I looked at the world and the United States differently.
If 'Ministry' has a central point, it is this: We are all in this together, for better or worse. Let's make it better. This is an important read.
But. The book is about reversing changes to the biosphere and what happens if we don't, so it's a book about all of the lives of all of the people on the planet. It is wide-ranging, covering economic systems, political systems, technologies, crypto-currency and carbon sequestration, the internet and terrorism, just for starters. As soon as I started reading it, I looked at the world and the United States differently.
If 'Ministry' has a central point, it is this: We are all in this together, for better or worse. Let's make it better. This is an important read.