The Ministry for the Future: Nominiert: The Kitschies Red Tentacle 2021

The Ministry for the Future: Nominiert: The Kitschies Red Tentacle 2021

Taschenbuch
3.47

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Beschreibung

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was To advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and this is its story.From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined.Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades to come.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.
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Taschenbuch
Seitenzahl
592
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10.99 €

Beiträge

4
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4

Absolute Leseempfehlung für jeden, der sich für Klimawandel interessiert (und das sollte eigentlich auch jeder tun). Das Buch beginnt sehr dystopisch und deprimierend (und viiiel zu nah dran an unserer eigenen nahen Zukunft), beschreibt dann aber sehr spannend anhand der Arbeit des "Ministry for the Future", wie immer mehr Maßnahmen und Strategien entwickelt werden, um die Erde lebenswert zu erhalten. Das geht auch in terroristische und gewaltsame Richtungen, aber am Ende zeigt sich, dass es Wege und Mittel gibt, die letztlich funktionieren. Ein Hoffnungsschimmer und ein paar Konzepte, die sehr nah dran am tatsächlich machbaren sind. Die letzten paar Kapitel sind dann nicht mehr so spannend, da zieht sich das ganze meiner Meinung nach unnötig. Nichtsdestrotrotz ein wirklich tolles Buch!

4

This book at times feels ominously prescient about the future and at others it feels like a long list of various ideas (a lot of them are actually pretty interesting). Though it was fun to read about a world that starts in the present day and ends up in an ideal version of the future where we’ve worked out climate change.

4

Wir sollten uns ein Beispiel nehmen…

Die Menschheit kämpft gegen ihren Untergang. Der Feind? Die Katastrophale, menschengemachte Klimaveränderung.

2

This book has some great ideas on how we might tackle climate change, but that's really all. At 560 pages, it's about 550 pages longer than it needs to be. There is no narrative here - The main character has an idea, everyone agrees to it, nothing ever goes wrong, and then the characters pat each other on the back for having such a good idea. Nothing unexpected happens, there are never any unintentional consequences, as the main character gets every national on earth to multilaterally agree on things at the drop of a hat. For all the thought and accuracy put into the science, the international politics in here is pure fantasy. Its just 500 pages of poorly developed characters doing everything perfectly the first time and lots of exposition about how great things are going now. Anything accidentally interesting (Children of Khali) are quickly moved past only to be used, off-hand, later. I honestly think this would have been better off as an op-ed at a journal describing the technologies than a 500+ page exercise in intellectual masturbation about how smart the main protag's ideas (i.e., the author's) are. Because the ideas *are* interesting on their own merits, but this book is not. The only reason it gets 2 stars instead of 1 is because at least the scientific and financial ideas being presented are thought-provoking and worthy of merit, even if this is totally the wrong format for them.

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