Kim Stanley Robinson: "Climate, Fiction, and The Future"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
The Magic Wand: How to Improve Human and Planetary Futures
If you could wave a magic wand and there was no personal recourse to your actions, what is one thing that you would do to improve human and planetary futures? As a science fiction author, I imagine you have dozens of such ideas. Some of it is absolutely simplistic. If people would spend more time outdoors, it would reorient their sense of reality in fundamental ways which changes the view of everything. The 30 by 30 thing is profound. When I first read the E.L. Wilson book Half Earth, I thought beautiful idea will never happen. And here 20 years later, it's happening.
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