Kim Stanley Robinson: What Do We Do Now to Protect Future Generations? (Festival of the Future City)

Kim Stanley Robinson, one of our great visionaries in his fiction and commentary, discusses his new novel.

In this masterpiece of the imagination, Robinson tells the story of climate change and the extraordinary challenges that face us but also what we might do now to protect the future. In his novel, the Ministry for the Future (founded in 2025) advocates for the world’s future generations and to protect all living creatures, both of the present and those yet to come

Though fiction, Robinson’s work is rooted in fact. This is in terms of climate change as well as the growing movements around the world urging governments to take action now to guarantee future generations the best life that can be provided. Being a good ancestor is a critical for the world, cities and individuals and there is no better guide than Robinson to how we might achieve this. Things might be desperate, but there is optimism here, too.

In conversation with Andrew Kelly.

Introduced by Cheryl Morgan.

Part of Festival of the Future City, run by Bristol Ideas: https://www.bristolideas.co.uk/projects/festival-of-the-future-city/

https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-ministry-for-the-future/kim-stanley-robinson/9780356508863

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