An illuminating conversation with one of our greatest living science-fiction writers on topics as diverse as AI, climate change, interstellar travel, new forms of finance needed to avert catastrophe, memorable characters and plot lines in his novels, the debate between settling Mars now vs fixing Earth first, utopia and dystopia, and his love of ultralight backpacking.
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Kim Stanley Robinson at the Long Now Foundation (YouTube)
The 2015 Paris Agreement
KSR - Paying Ourselves to Decarbonize (NOEMA)
Special drawing rights (Wikipedia)
A safe operating space for humanity (Nature - Johan Rockström, et al )
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