Wednesday, October 14, 2020

The best books to help us navigate the next 50 years

Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting, The Years of Rice and Salt, Antarctica, and The Ministry for the Future.

In 2008, Robinson was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine.

One of the best books to help us navigate the next fifty years he tagged at the Guardian:
As someone who has spent many years thinking about how we could live on Mars, I can assure you that there is no planet B. Adjusting ourselves and our society to the planet we actually live on will require us to create and enact a new structure of feeling. The feminist theorist Donna Haraway urges us to take care of our animal cousins in her provocative study Staying With the Trouble. We must establish enduring relationships between generations and species, she argues, and recognise that an improved political economy is both necessary and possible.
Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue