Our imaginative landscape islittered with dystopias.
Thats what I think is being offered to us in The Ministry for the Future.
The relief is that these efforts seem, if incredibly difficult, still realistically achievable.
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The eyewitness accounts were crucial to me, Robinson tells EW.
So, how might it be fixed?
Its called carbon coin, and its drawn from actual economic proposals.
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It has to be admitted that the world runs by way of money as its blood.
Were not going to invent a way of running an 8-billion-person system without some kind of exchange.
Money is money, and its important, Robinson says.
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Money isnt the problem.
Wall Street is the name for using money to make profit for people who didnt even make anything.
Theyre weird, but important.
Thats why Mary has to dive deep into that stuff, and I had to dive deep.
I tested the limits.
In terms of science fiction, the science involved is the science of money.
That way, the entire system of incentives around protective climate action would change.
But that’s how bankers think.
How much was the Ministry involved with political violence?
Maybe that was me chickening out as a bourgeois suburban Californian and pacifist.
Were going to see actions like the violent actions the book describes.
Much of the book details one disaster after another, both personal and global.
But eventually, a nearly-indecipherable shift begins to take place.
“It is an effect that I wanted,” Robinson says.
