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The Ministry for the Future
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, Gary Bennett, Raphael Corkhill, Barrie Kreinik, Natasha Soudek, Nikki Massoud, Joniece Abbott Pratt, Inés del Castillo, Vikas Adam
- Durée: 20 h et 42 min
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Why We're Polarized
- Auteur(s): Ezra Klein
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In Why We’re Polarized, Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America’s descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump’s rise to the Democratic Party’s leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics.
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Occasionally interesting, but ultimately lacking
- Écrit par Chuong Nguyen le 2022-10-14
Auteur(s): Ezra Klein
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- Auteur(s): Vaclav Smil
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Perring
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We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don’t know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check—because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts.
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too much
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2022-11-24
Auteur(s): Vaclav Smil
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The Power
- Auteur(s): Naomi Alderman
- Narrateur(s): Adjoa Andoh, Naomi Alderman, Thomas Judd, Autres
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'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She'd put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.' Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death.
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This book made me proud to be a woman
- Écrit par Launa J Amey le 2019-01-23
Auteur(s): Naomi Alderman
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Red Mars
- Auteur(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrateur(s): Richard Ferrone
- Durée: 23 h et 51 min
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Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, Red Mars is the first book in Kim Stanley Robinson's best-selling trilogy. Red Mars is praised by scientists for its detailed visions of future technology. It is also hailed by authors and critics for its vivid characters and dramatic conflicts.
For centuries, the red planet has enticed the people of Earth. Now an international group of scientists has colonized Mars. Leaving Earth forever, these 100 people have traveled nine months to reach their new home. This is the remarkable story of the world they create - and the hidden power struggles of those who want to control it.
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Not what you're expecting.
- Écrit par Joe le 2018-12-10
Auteur(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
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Antarctica
- Auteur(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrateur(s): Adam Verner
- Durée: 19 h et 10 min
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It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers. Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica’s resources to be plundered, its eerie beauty to be savaged. As politicians wrangle over its fate, major corporations begin probing for its hidden riches.
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Not what I was expecting - but still great
- Écrit par Jeremy Morris le 2021-07-31
Auteur(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
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2312
- Auteur(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrateur(s): Sarah Zimmerman
- Durée: 19 h et 11 min
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The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen....
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worst voice performance ive ever heard
- Écrit par steven le 2019-08-06
Auteur(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
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Why We're Polarized
- Auteur(s): Ezra Klein
- Narrateur(s): Ezra Klein
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In Why We’re Polarized, Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America’s descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump’s rise to the Democratic Party’s leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics.
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Occasionally interesting, but ultimately lacking
- Écrit par Chuong Nguyen le 2022-10-14
Auteur(s): Ezra Klein
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- Auteur(s): Vaclav Smil
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Perring
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We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don’t know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check—because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts.
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too much
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2022-11-24
Auteur(s): Vaclav Smil
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The Power
- Auteur(s): Naomi Alderman
- Narrateur(s): Adjoa Andoh, Naomi Alderman, Thomas Judd, Autres
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'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She'd put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.' Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death.
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This book made me proud to be a woman
- Écrit par Launa J Amey le 2019-01-23
Auteur(s): Naomi Alderman
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Red Mars
- Auteur(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrateur(s): Richard Ferrone
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Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, Red Mars is the first book in Kim Stanley Robinson's best-selling trilogy. Red Mars is praised by scientists for its detailed visions of future technology. It is also hailed by authors and critics for its vivid characters and dramatic conflicts.
For centuries, the red planet has enticed the people of Earth. Now an international group of scientists has colonized Mars. Leaving Earth forever, these 100 people have traveled nine months to reach their new home. This is the remarkable story of the world they create - and the hidden power struggles of those who want to control it.
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Not what you're expecting.
- Écrit par Joe le 2018-12-10
Auteur(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
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Antarctica
- Auteur(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrateur(s): Adam Verner
- Durée: 19 h et 10 min
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It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers. Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica’s resources to be plundered, its eerie beauty to be savaged. As politicians wrangle over its fate, major corporations begin probing for its hidden riches.
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Not what I was expecting - but still great
- Écrit par Jeremy Morris le 2021-07-31
Auteur(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
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2312
- Auteur(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrateur(s): Sarah Zimmerman
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The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen....
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worst voice performance ive ever heard
- Écrit par steven le 2019-08-06
Auteur(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
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What We Owe the Future
- Auteur(s): William MacAskill
- Narrateur(s): William MacAskill
- Durée: 8 h et 55 min
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In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill argues for longtermism, that idea that positively influencing the distant future is a key moral priority of our time. It’s not enough to reverse climate change or avert the next pandemic. We must ensure that civilization would rebound if it collapsed, counter the end of moral progress, and prepare for a planet where the smartest beings are digital, not human. If we set humanity’s course right, our grandchildren’s grandchildren will thrive, knowing we did everything to give them a world of justice, hope, and beauty.
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Gives some perspective to challenges we face
- Écrit par Stanley Jones le 2022-12-29
Auteur(s): William MacAskill
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New York 2140
- Auteur(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrateur(s): Suzanne Toren, Robin Miles, Peter Ganim, Autres
- Durée: 22 h et 34 min
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New York Times best-selling author Kim Stanley Robinson returns with a bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century. As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city. There is the market trader, who finds opportunities where others find trouble. There is the detective, whose work will never disappear - along with the lawyers, of course.
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Meh
- Écrit par Irving Cornejo le 2017-11-11
Auteur(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
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Earthshot
- How to Save Our Planet
- Auteur(s): Colin Butfield, Jonnie Hughes
- Narrateur(s): Jonnie Hughes, David Attenborough, Christiana Figueres, Autres
- Durée: 9 h et 38 min
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With an introduction from Prince William and contributions from Sir David Attenborough, Shakira Mebarak, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Naoko Yamazaki and Christiana Figueres, Earthshot shows us how, by working together, we can solve Earth’s greatest challenges.
Auteur(s): Colin Butfield, Autres
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Termination Shock
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Neal Stephenson
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini
- Durée: 22 h et 54 min
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One man—visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T. R. Schmidt, Ph.D.—has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as “elemental.” But will it work? Ranging from the Texas heartland to the Dutch royal palace in the Hague, from the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas to the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert, Termination Shock brings together a disparate group of characters from different cultures and continents who grapple with the real-life repercussions of global warming.
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more than meets the eye? nope
- Écrit par Scott Fox le 2022-07-29
Auteur(s): Neal Stephenson
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The Dawn of Everything
- A New History of Humanity
- Auteur(s): David Graeber, David Wengrow
- Narrateur(s): Malk Williams
- Durée: 24 h et 2 min
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For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could only be achieved by sacrificing those original freedoms, or alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. Graeber and Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today.
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Being Critical of Assumptions
- Écrit par James Andrew Davis le 2021-11-13
Auteur(s): David Graeber, Autres
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Future Home of the Living God
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Louise Erdrich
- Narrateur(s): Louise Erdrich
- Durée: 10 h et 44 min
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The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backward, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant.
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Interesting characters in a dystopic but relatable
- Écrit par EW le 2019-05-04
Auteur(s): Louise Erdrich
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The Overstory
- Auteur(s): Richard Powers
- Narrateur(s): Suzanne Toren
- Durée: 22 h et 58 min
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The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.
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A life-changing read
- Écrit par Cynthia Bates le 2020-07-10
Auteur(s): Richard Powers
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Under the Volcano
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Malcolm Lowry
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 14 h et 50 min
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On the Day of the Dead, in 1938, Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic and ruined man, is fatefully living out his last day, drowning himself in mescal while his former wife and half-brother look on, powerless to help him. The events of this one day unfold against a backdrop unforgettable for its evocation of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical.
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If you want hear this book, hear this recording
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2019-01-13
Auteur(s): Malcolm Lowry
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Grand Transitions
- How the Modern World Was Made
- Auteur(s): Vaclav Smil
- Narrateur(s): Robert Fass
- Durée: 16 h et 15 min
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What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization - in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics - that have transformed the way we live.
Auteur(s): Vaclav Smil
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Aurora
- Auteur(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrateur(s): Ali Ahn
- Durée: 16 h et 56 min
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A major new novel from one of science fiction's most powerful voices, Aurora tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, it is the work of a writer at the height of his powers.
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Awful propaganda filled nonsense
- Écrit par Shawn le 2021-11-13
Auteur(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
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Regenesis
- Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
- Auteur(s): George Monbiot
- Narrateur(s): George Monbiot
- Durée: 9 h et 29 min
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Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticize urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across 30 times as much land. We have ploughed, fenced and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Yet millions still go hungry.
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Hopeful read
- Écrit par Krista Salter le 2023-01-18
Auteur(s): George Monbiot
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Exhalation
- Stories
- Auteur(s): Ted Chiang
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, Amy Landon, Autres
- Durée: 11 h et 22 min
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From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others - the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film Arrival: a groundbreaking new collection of short fiction. In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
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Delightful collection of thought-provoking stories
- Écrit par Hmmmm le 2020-02-03
Auteur(s): Ted Chiang
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From legendary science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades.
The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face.
It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written.
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020
"If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." (Ezra Klein)
"The best science fiction-nonfiction novel I’ve ever read." (Jonathan Lethem, Vanity Fair)
"A breathtaking look at the challenges that face our planet in all their sprawling magnitude and also in their intimate, individual moments of humanity." (Booklist, starred)
Also by Kim Stanley Robinson:
- Red Moon
- New York 2140
- 2312
- Aurora
- Shaman
Ce que les critiques en disent
"Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom." (Bloomberg Green)
"[A] gutsy, humane view of a near-future Earth.... Robinson masterfully integrates the practical details of environmental crises and geoengineering projects into a sweeping, optimistic portrait of humanity's ability to cooperate in the face of disaster. This heartfelt work of hard science-fiction is a must-read for anyone worried about the future of the planet." (Publishers Weekly, starred)
"A breathtaking look at the challenges that face our planet in all their sprawling magnitude and also in their intimate, individual moments of humanity." (Booklist)
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- Mike
- 2021-03-19
must read
I think this is the most important book I've listened to. I've started thinking a lot about what I can do.
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- William Barth
- 2022-08-27
way not worth the hype
This is still scifi. There must be a better book that spells out the truths of our time, in a much more concise and digestible way. This book is jumbled and long winded. The story line jumps around so much that one has to relisten multiple times or take notes while listening.
The actors leave much to be desired and some delivery warrants replaying to really understand what was said.
Global warming.
Heat wave kills.
Introduced me to wet bulb temps. never knew about them.
Oil and gas magnates.
Government corruption.
Concept of carbon coin is interesting and would love a book all about that on its own.
Same with the fesability of sail and photovelics.
something that is much more non fiction about marxism, communism, practical, and scientific.
Its a good story, sure. Maybe will be made into a movie or series even. Kind of like the expanse, i guess. but certainly not as gripping from a fiction standpoint.
paper version may be better.
i dont understand all the overwhelmingly positive reviews.
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- Chris Shannon
- 2022-06-11
Fantasy fairy-tale of someone stuck in the 60's
This book is a good way to exercise your eye muscles. You will roll your eyes constantly. It's a fantasy laundry list of things that would have worked out if only capitalism wasn't oppressing us. Yes, Communism is on that list, and let's ignore that capitalism is the only economic system that actually benefited the poor. Let's ignore that from the rise of capitalism to modern day that poverty dropped from about 90% to 8%. Let's ignore that capitalism is the only system that actually gave a damn about the environment (communism surely didn't). Let's ignore that capitalism is the only system that reduced the time people needed to work (spoilers: being a feudal serf was brutal. But so was being a worker in Maoist China.) Let's ignore all of that, because this book certainly did.
This book really should have done some research. It has the main character visiting banks in cities that those banks do not exist in (Hint, the Bundesbank is not in Berlin and the ECB is not in Brussels. They're, ironically, much closer to Switzerland than either of those two cities.) Sure, the author could have found that out by doing a simple Google search. However, this book is just disdainful for anyone who it assumes doesn't share its opinions. Economics is a pseudo-science, political science is a pseudo-science. Climatology, ironically, is a pseudo-science. Anyone who doesn't support the book's desired angle is to be discredited. If you are unfortunate to live in this "non-dystopian" take on climate change, you are likely to be more than discredited, "targeted assassinations" and employed and applauded by the protagonists in this novel. They don't kill anyone "innocent" (which means people they decided were guilty) until they do, and then they invent crimes to rationalise their systematic murder or their political enemies. The ends justify the means, I guess. Except, they don't. Not even in the narrative. The narrative tells us about 50% through that their efforts aren't effective. So, they, a UN agency, are using targeted assassinations to kill people in vain.
I must remind you that this is supposed to be "non-dystopian". This is one of the most "idealistic" depictions of the climate crisis. This book contains unironic adoption of fascist slogans and symbols like "India first" and "Africa for the Africans" and lionises the gilets jaunes, who were famously a magnet for far-right nativists.
The depictions of the EU in this novel are just... bizarre. It's like a caricature of someone who has no knowledge of or experience with the Brussels machine. You think someone who based a considerable part of their novel in the EEC would have some fundamental knowledge of that system. However, it seems that most of their research in this area was limited to the landmarks of Zurich.
Then there is just the bad writing. Things like Mary Murphy's every action being attributed to some perceived stereotypical Irish trait. The characters will frequently say the exact same things or have exactly the same thought, like all the point of view characters share a hive-mind. It's also pretty amazing how characters who have been spending decades of ruining people's lives and actively running the most successful terrorist killing thousands, if not millions, of people are shocked and astounded that they have fostered a climate of fear and violence in which people would seem to attack them directly out of revenge.
There are better and better-written novels on the climate crisis. This book is just hot garbage. It's a fetid fantasy of some hippy that wasn't able to accept that socialism didn't work and only produced immense suffering among the very people it sought to help. I'm not at all skeptical of the climate crisis. I believe we need to take serious action, and needed to some time ago. However, this book can't be allowed to use that crisis as a shield. Just because it writes about that situation, it can't be ignored that its solution to the climate crisis is founded on the idea that we need to murder our way out of it. That's not acceptable.
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- T. Walker
- 2021-12-06
Perhaps This Himan Race is Not Yet Run
This is a lengthy and absorbing answer to the dilemma which faces us all. The varied voices of the characters make this a great listen. I am not sure what else to say other than that this is an optimistic look at the future of the human race if and only if the Vast Majority, the silent majority, the hordes and multitudes, somehow collectively move towards safety.
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- Alan Smithson
- 2022-11-02
A long, winding take about a future fate.
The ministry of the future is a long drawn out tale about the consequences of climate change, the challenges of global finance and a future where nature is at the forefront of humanity. This is an interesting look at what we must become in order to save this planet for future generations to come.
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- Charles MacLean
- 2022-10-25
what story?
I didn't feel there was a central character other than the planet and honestly by the end I wanted the planet to lose as this was soooooo drawn out.
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- Krista Salter
- 2022-09-14
Absolutely a must read!
Interesting portrayl of how the next few decades may turn out with some optimism.
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- S C S
- 2022-09-11
Absorbing, well produced
This was a terrific book to read by audio - the voice acting was beautifully done, making the characters vivid and engaging.
The story is compelling and complex: I frequently found myself marvelling at the depth and breadth of research it must have taken to write it.
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- Snazzy_Scott
- 2022-08-16
Just give me the policy paper
I thought this was an excellent telling of all the different ways we can fight climate change and inequality to build a better future. Unfortunately just as with EcoTopia and Walden Two, it is difficult to convey content rich and scientifically informed ideas while also maintaining a strong narrative. The author did this as well as possible with all of the different narrators throughout the book. Unfortunately I just found myself not caring about Mary’s retirement, large portions of Frank’s life and the overly frequent and lavish pros describing Switzerland.
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- Arthur Garrido
- 2022-07-02
Inspiring
Some really cool ideas and makes me want to make changes in my own life.
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- depthpsychologist
- 2020-12-09
Great ideas, uneven narration
I downloaded to this audiobook because Ezra Klein said it was the most important book he had read in 2020—not for the story or literary quality so much as for the realistic and comprehensive way it addresses the coming climate crisis.
This is a novel of ideas in the truest sense. It's really about envisioning the future: what the climate catastrophe will look like, and how the world might change to address it. It is at times tragic and depressing, at other times optimistic. The scope of the novel is impressive. It definitely made me see the climate crisis in a new light, and got me thinking seriously about all kinds of things, and that's what a novel of ideas is supposed to do: make you think. The novel is well worth reading for that reason alone, though be warned at times the story and the characters definitely take a back seat to the ideas.
I found the narration of this audiobook uneven and sometimes quite irritating. This is a huge cast, and it seems like they just mailed out the chapters to a bunch of voice actors with little coordination or direction. So, different characters voices sound radically different at different times. The whole tone can shift radically too. The biggest problem I had though is that some of the voices are just over-wrought, over-done, garish and cartoony. This happens throughout, but I got especially frustrated by the Irish narrator who reads Mary's chapters: her idea of doing a mans voice is make her voice as closed and raspy as possible, her Russian and Indian accents have wild sing-songy intonations, and her American accent is whiney. This is a real shame because Mary becomes the novel's main protagonist and her chapters are long. I got to the point where my heart sank every time she came back on to start a new chapter, and I almost didn't make it through to the end as the result.
All that aside, it's an important book and well worth engaging with one way or the other. If you're picky about your narration, you might want to read it rather than listen to the audiobook.
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- D. J. Miller
- 2020-12-05
Ruined by dreadful narration
We have some narrators here, Fitzgerald the worst among them, who read without understanding of:
1. The material
2. How words are pronounced
3. How sentences work
4. Any accent other than their native one
The experience is comparable to an ice pick in the ear. Returning the audiobook and buying a paper copy instead.
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- knal03
- 2020-12-06
A dystopian future told by the people at the top
An accidental dystopian view in the authors view of utopia. It is basically a Marxist/Greenpeace utopia that glorifies terrorism and authoritarianism for the "greater good." The tech and engineering is well thought out and interesting, but characters and story are naive. The story itself is a bland delivery mechanism for the evangelism. More of the same old political dogma.
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- Eleanor B. Hildreth
- 2020-11-11
I raved about it to my friends
The first step to change is being able to imagine how it could happen. I just loved that toward the end of the story, emissions start to fall. They top off at 474 ppm, hang at that level for a decade and then start to drop 5 ppm per year. Reforestation and seaweed farming and ??? I'm listening to it again to learn it better.
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Author is not perfect. He has not much studied nonviolent movements and is, as are so many, rather a leftist. Don't those two go hand in hand? But he knows a LOT about climate. I learned a lot and I've been a climate activist for a dozen years. Nothing he said seemed just plain wrong to me. And his putting all that info in stories is like chocolate coating it.
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Author is rather optimistic. The story characters discuss possible collapse of civilization, but do not mention the possibility of human extinction.
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This book earns author a spot on my climate heroes list: Paul Hawken, Greta Thunberg, Donella Meadows, Al Gore, John Michael Greer, Pope Francis,
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- Robert Handley
- 2020-12-26
Multiple narrators distracting (again)
I purchased because of Ezra Klein recommendation and I recognize the importance of this title. However the voice chops of various readers is not consistent. As with many titles, it seems there was insufficient oversight regarding pronunciation of words, voice quality, speed of reading/narrator and acting (overacting/412). Was there a producer in the house? My prejudice is to not struggle with audio/narrator quality and multiple voices, and I knew up front that voicing would be an issue, but the premise is useful. I'm glad I listened.
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- dan fisklements
- 2020-11-16
bleak yet optimistic view of climate change impact
difficult to listen to, but an important book none the less. Robinson packs the book full of facts and real science. the plot is a little slow at points, but I'm still glad I listened.
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- Phillip F Norris
- 2020-11-04
will listen again
I loved the ideas and the writing though not a plot-driven page-turner. The many narrative performances were top notch.
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- J. Clark
- 2021-03-07
Narration is a mixed bag, but otherwise compelling
It's really impossible to sum this up, so I'll just toss out a few points:
1. The narration ranges from pretty good to among the worst I've ever heard.
2. The opening is extremely bleak, but once it opens up and gets going, it's an interesting mix of hopelessness and hopefulness.
3. There is a mix of science, philosophy, economics, sociology, and fiction presented in a mix of narrative, interview transcripts, essays, and so on. It's uneven and kind of random, but compelling, so just be ready for that.
4. I see a lot of reviews complaining about the book's agenda. The book doesn't actually pass judgment on the characters' actions, it simply reports their outcome. Maybe some of the economics and philosophy are questionable, maybe not. It is what it is, and I believe these are important conversations to have.
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- Michael
- 2021-09-09
Socialistic progressive wet dream
Socialistic progressive wet dream
I am not a climate denier and generally consider myself a social liberal, but this is a crazy socialistic progressive wet dream of world rule by local collectives, secret UN environmentalist terrorist kill teams (who murder petroleum executives), cryptocurrencies allowing tracking of all transactions and redistribution of wealth, jets replaced with leisurely dirigibles, a single worldwide gaia religious conversion, and a weird combination of massive geoengineering (changing the color of the ocean with dye and distributing reflective particles into the atmosphere lasting for years along with thousands of third-world local communal action group projects which (decades from now) reverse climate change! Hurray!
There is not much novel here, there are some characters and an almost non-existent love story (I think), along with a bunch of ultra-progressive theology blending with progressive half-baked scientific interventions.
I have read dozens of books on the issue of climate change, and what becomes clear is both scientific and socio-political interventions are extraordinarily complex. I recommend "The Uninhabitable Earth" which has quite a dark outlook, but it does highlight the many issues with both scientific and socio-political climate change solutions.
A number of reviewers have compared this novel to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Both attempt to use the novel from to make a socio-political point, but, although I disagree with Rand's objectivism, she definitely writes a better novel.
Some reviewers REALLY did not like the narration. I did not love the narration, but it was clear and only rarely annoyed me.
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- Lincoln
- 2020-11-18
the most depressing book ever
wow. I only got to chapter 2. This book put me in such a gross, dark mood. I already know our planet is doomed and the future generations will suffer and die horrible deaths. that is why i chose not to breed. I dont need a play by play of what a couple generations ahead on me will go through in excruciating detail. This is one of those rare times where I will be asking for my audible credit back.
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