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Season 2, Episode 11: Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

2023/3/10
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Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs

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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and bestselling science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, to discuss Robinson’s recent books The Ministry for the Future) and New York 2140)  for a thought provoking conversation on how climate change has and will potentially affect us all. 

 Together, they explore climate change as an existential threat and the plausible and tumultuous ways the climate crisis will shape our future. What happens as we push beyond planetary boundaries? Will sea levels rise to devastating levels, submerging lower Manhattan and other urban centers of the world? Will climate change lead to acts of terrorism, countries engaging in unilateral geoengineering, and even climate terrorism??  Will UN member states finally get their act together?The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy), the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org)."

Footnotes:

  • COP Meetings)
  • Paris Agreement )
  • UN Member States)
  • Small Island States )
  • 1.5 degree Celsius)
  • Unanimity Rules)
  • Decarbonize) 
  • Capitalism )
  • Mass Extinction)
  • Keynesian)
  • Tax Structures)

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