Kim Stanley Robinson – On Climate Fiction and “The Ministry for the Future”

Planet A - Talks on Climate Change - A podcast by Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities

The heat waves of the future could produce deadly “wet bulb temperatures” that would kill millions of people by sheer heat exhaustion. How will governments, citizens and international organizations react, if a heat wave killed 20 million people in India? That is the premise of the novel “The Ministry for the Future” – a novel that mixes science fiction and environmentalism.The guest on the premiere episode of the fifth season of Planet A is renowned science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson...