Season 2, Episode 11: Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and bestselling science fiction
author Kim Stanley Robinson, to discuss Robinson’s recent books
The Ministry for the Future and New York 2140  for a thought
provoking conversation on how climate change has and will
potentially affect us all. 


 Together, they explore climate change as an existential
threat and the plausible and tumultuous ways the climate crisis
will shape our future. What happens as we push beyond planetary
boundaries? Will sea levels rise to devastating levels,
submerging lower Manhattan and other urban centers of the world?
Will climate change lead to acts of terrorism, countries engaging
in unilateral geoengineering, and even climate terrorism?? 
Will UN member states finally get their act together?

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Footnotes:


COP Meetings

Paris Agreement 

UN Member States

Small Island States 

1.5 degree Celsius

Unanimity Rules

Decarbonize 

Capitalism 

Mass Extinction

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