This week’s episode is from the BBC's The Climate Question podcast titled, Can science fiction help us fight climate change? (26 minutes) Here, the hosts interview and discuss the works of acclaimed science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson.
Robinson has been a guest speaker at the COP climate summit, and novels such as The Ministry For The Future and The Mars Trilogy are admired by everyone from Barack Obama to former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres. Robinson's books are not just imaginative but scientifically accurate, and some of their ideas have even inspired new thinking about climate-proofing technology. (Episode website)
Has your research or career decisions ever been inspired by a work of science fiction? By KSR or anyone else? Besides books, were there any movies, TV shows, comics or other media that got you thinking?
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Supplemental Reading (Optional)
This provides additional context for the discussion, but you do not need to read it to participate.
Article + excerpt from Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future