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/
"The banks?, The financial sector?, The policy wonks?, Who would have thought they would save the planet.
The Ministry for the Future, just might have it right.
Wait until you get to morally justified Eco-terrorism.
That's gonna push a lot of buttons.
😊 I saved the best for last on my list of articles at the bottom of this one. That one's going to be... a trip!
@corlin
Yes! I'm looking forward to diving into that section first, because so many people bounced off the book the moment they saw a crypto-based solution enmeshed with future climate change policy. But they definitely missed the bigger point in that line of thinking in the book - and some of the important real-world policy ideas on which it was based.
Hoping for a good discussion in that first article! (I imagine it will get a bit heated - but better our comment threads than the world! 😉)