For capitalism, science is dangerous and needs immediately to be bought. And since then, one project of science is to try to free itself for the good by pointing out that the bad is really bad. Now in this moment of climate crisis, where science is saying, look, we can't go on the way we're going. One it'll wreck our bio infer structure, and we will all suffer accordingly. And then capitalism says, no, no,. no. We can always make a profit, but profit itself, by definition, is exploitation and unsustainably. So i see a kind of hindu god type conflict. This has been true for me for the last 30 years - just
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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