I love the green new deal for its boldness in evoking all this history in a positive way going forward. I was always in favor of a united front, that the project for americans is to pull the democratic party to the left. Can climate change present the same sense of horror an emergency? That's an open question. If the revolution were to come, it could happen in the 20 twenties,. In order not to torture the earth and destroy the basis of human civilization, we are going to have to seize the economic systemand nationalize it. But it would be international, because all the nations would have to do it. It's scary when you put it in as those terms
Kim Stanley Robinson on science fiction, climate crisis, Marxism, geo-engineering, political violence, green Keynesianism, and a lot more. Interviewed by guest host Daniel Aldana Cohen, who read 11 of Robinson’s books during the pandemic quarantine, running from Red Mars through The Ministry for the Future.
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