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The Ministry for the Future

Auteur(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
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
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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:

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©2020 Kim Stanley Robinson (P)2020 Orbit

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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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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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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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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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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Great Story. Terrible performance

This was my first audio book and I thought I had made a mistake getting audible because of how terrible the reading of this one was. I started off reading Ministry for the Future and wanted to finish it while driving to and from work. Listening to this engaging story has become a chore.

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Failed by the performance

This book is well written but almost ruined by the performance. Mispronounced words, terrible accents, misleading grammar and emphasis are all there to turn an important book into a frustrating chore.

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Brilliant

I know of no better statement for what the future world could be, if only we have the will to truly address climate change and improve life for everyone on the planet—human and non-human.

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Fantastic

This is an incredibly powerful book. Filled with stories of fiction that could so easily be real, prescient, prophetic. It is the story of the human condition and of the disastrous failures of human systems. Of our tendency to ignore future perils for the comfort of the moment. Of capitalism’s tendency to exaggerate the worst in us and elevate the most destructive among us to positions of unchecked power. Of a future that may lead to our end, or ours and our planet’s salvation. Beautiful. Desperate. Angry. Sorrowful. Hopeful.

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An interesting book

There are good points about how people are likely to react to climate change and its effects. And showcases some interesting ideas about how we can mitigate the damage done as well as some likely problems that could come up.

Overall, I enjoyed it.

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Terrible, chip climate changenge Davinci Code

IS not just grossly low resolution progressive, it doesn't make sense at all, I'm just sorry about the time that I lost, I was just trying to find if it makes a point, but is just shame , guilt and crap.

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