Okay, readers! 📗🎉
Today for #OnlySky, Humanist Book Club Series 2 begins.
This time, we're tackling Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future - but we're doing it a bit differently. No chapter summaries. Instead, we're looking at different approaches to climate change reform addressed in this work of near-future sci-fi.
No need to have read it! But today I explore why fiction can be *so* good for combating the helplessness in our news.
#CoSoBooks #Humanism
https://onlysky.media/mclark/how-do-we-talk-about-impending-doom-so-that-people-will-listen/
@MLClark I knew Stan! He wrote a trilogy of books about Orange County CA where we both lived. They're compiled now into "Three Californias":
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Californias-Shore-Coast-Pacific/dp/1250307562/
I worked for a local progressive politician he'd always wanted to meet, so I arranged that. The politician was clueless about SF, but they had a shared interest in environmental protecttion.