Climate Revolution: The Only Future | The Verso Book Club Reading Group
Kim Stanley Robinson will join climate theorists Andreas Malm and Wim Carton to discuss why in the end, no technology can absolve us of responsibility for our planet and each other.
Can climate catastrophe be reversed, masked or simply adapted to once it is a fact? Can technological proposals help us turn down the heat, or are they simply another excuse for those seeking to avoid limiting emissions? What does climate politics look like when it’s too late?
As anyone who has picked it up will readily perceive, The Long Heat asks a lot of the reader. Here Andreas Malm and Wim Carton have taken a leaf from what they consider to be one of the greatest cli-fi novels yet written: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson.
“On the left, no one was more influential than Kim Stanley Robinson. This author of socialist sci-fi is deeply fascinated by what humans might possibly do with technology in a hotter world. With The Ministry for the Future, he might have done more than any scientific report to implant the idea in a broader public." —Andreas Malm and Wim Carton, The Long Heat
The next Verso Book Club Reading Group will take place on November 30th at 2pm EST / 7pm GMT. We're thrilled to announce that our speakers, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton, will be joined in discussion by Kim Stanley Robinson, renowned author of 22 novels including Red Mars and The Years of Rice and Salt.
They'll be discussing the critiques of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster, how to challenge misinformation and bias in such a contentious field, and the new front lines in the struggle for a liveable planet.
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