Luis Villa on Nostr: It's increasingly clear that the shocking opening of Kim Stanley Robinson's "Ministry ...
It's increasingly clear that the shocking opening of Kim Stanley Robinson's "Ministry for the Future" won't happen as he wrote it. The 20M-death heat wave will come, but no one will care, it will have been preceded by many 1M+ death heat waves and we'll have become desensitized. The 1K+ heat waves are already here, and floods displacing millions don't make American or European front pages.
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https://mastodon.social/@TheEnvyofAngels/112668663103173910Published at
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