<figure><img src="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/imE8FpxBCWRc/v12/-1x-1.png"><figcaption><div><p>Source: Bloomberg, 31:37</p></div><div></div></figcaption></figure><p>Science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson&#x2019;s seminal 2020 novel Ministry of the Future takes place in the year 2025. As the year begins, Robinson tells Akshat Rathi about how our real-life climate politics stack up against what he imagined for this era. They also discuss the dangers of sci-fi-centric thinking in politics and why, for all his admiration of science and technology, Robinson remains so enamored with the unglamorous workings of the United Nations.</p>

Science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s seminal 2020 novel Ministry for the Future takes place in the year 2025. As the year begins, Robinson tells Akshat Rathi about how our real-life climate politics stack up against what he imagined for this era. They also discuss the dangers of sci-fi-centric thinking in politics and why, for all his admiration of science and technology, Robinson remains so enamored with the unglamorous workings of the United Nations.

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