Author speaking to Bioneers (20min)
(if this were a campaign speech,
I'd drop everything and join the party!)
NPR: The carbon coin: A novel idea
Popular Science: Sci-fi carbon coins could actually save our planet
Global Carbon Reward (Delton Chen)
"Humans are burning about 40 gigatons (a gigaton is a billion tons) of fossil carbon per year. Scientists have calculated that we can burn about 500 more gigatons of fossil carbon before we push the average global temperature over 2 degrees Celsius higher than it was when the industrial revolution began; this is as high as we can push it, they calculate, before really dangerous effects will follow for most of Earth’s bioregions, meaning also food production for people." -- Robinson, Kim Stanley. The Ministry for the Future: A Novel (p. 29). Kindle Edition.
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Most of the books I've read about climate change struggle to end on a positive note. This is he first where that effort seems realistic, albeit at the cost of considerable strife. Perhaps if enough people read Ministry of the Future, we can avoid some of that strife.
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