Kim Stanley Robinson on "Utopian" Science Fiction

One of the premier writers of thought provoking sci-fi, Kim Stanley Robinson opened his book “The Ministry for the Future” with an all too plausible climate change scenario: a lethal heat wave descends on India, with vast, horrifying consequences. It’s a sobering read, especially after July, 2021, was declared the hottest month on record. And yet Robinson tells Bill McKibben that his work is not dystopian; his central concern is how the globe could respond to such a disaster and begin to halt the momentum of global warming. New Yorker podcast.

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