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Jak by mohl vypadat konec kapitalismu? Utopista Robinson v novém románu nabízí alternativu – A2larm
https://a2larm.cz/2024/05/jak-by-mohl-vypadat-konec-kapitalismu-utopista-robinson-v-novem-romanu-nabizi-alternativu/

Belicek: Uvidíme, jak se povede dnešnímu dílu věnovanému "poslednímu žijícímu utopistovi" Kimu Stanley Robinsonovi a jeho dalšímu příspěvku do žánru klimatická fikce. V próze Ministerstvo pro budoucnost ukazuje svět, který sice tvrdě zasáhne klimatická změna, ale společným celoplanetárním úsilím se lidstvu podaří tento problém vyřešit. Francis Fukuyama román označil za "komicky nerealistický" a my s Eva Klíčová se ptáme, jestli už jen to, že utopickou dimenzi románu Ministerstvo pro budoucnost vnímáme jako podezřelou a vadnou, náhodou dokonale neilustruje to, jak v naší kultuře zvítězila dystopie nad utopií.

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Kim Stanley Robinson: a climate plan for a world in flames
https://www.ft.com/content/ff94df96-b702-4e01-addd-f4253d0eecf6

Pluralistic: 23 Aug 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/23/dont-wanna-spoil-the-surprise/#monocausotaxophilia

WWII was visible on the horizon for years, this impending doom that everyone saw coming – that people might have done something about. They tried – the League of Nations – but in the end, the crisis couldn't be averted.

For Robinson, the climate emergency is a WWII kind of emergency, and the Paris Accord is our League of Nations – thought whether it will enough to blunt the emergency is a great unknown.

Robinson lays out the problem. The world's petrostates – America, Canada, Russia, Australia, Saudi, Norway, etc – need to be bribed or coerced or shamed or convinced not to murder us all in order to make a couple trillion before the music stops.

It's a wicked problem, and in a fundamental sense, it's a monetary problem. A market system can't solve this. Re-engineering the world's infrastructure to decarbonize it is all costs, no profit. Stranding fossil fuel assets is market poison.

The market inescapably misprices existential risk: "The market systemically misprices things by way of improper discounting of the future, false externalities and many other predatory miscalculations, which have led to gross inequality and biosphere destruction."

Saving the planet is not high-yield. Building a "planetary sewage system" to "retrieve and disposing of the waste we’ve been dumping into the atmosphere" is a money-loser: "no one actually wants thousands of billions of tons of dry ice."

Despite the looming disaster, Robinson is bullish on the 89 large central banks' Network for Greening the Financial System and its "climate scenarios," which seriously contemplates reorienting the planet's productive capacity to climate mitigation.

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Given the power of science and the possibility of "carbon quantitative easing" (a possibility that owes itself to the collapse of deficit hawkism after the 2008 and 2020 stimuluses, which had many defects, but didn't trigger runaway inflation), Robinson sees cause for hope.

"The time has come to admit we control our economy for the common good. Crucial at all times, this realisation is especially important in our current need to dodge a mass-extinction event. The invisible hand never picks up the cheque; therefore we must govern ourselves."

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New York 2140 - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_2140

New York 2140 is a 2017 climate fiction novel by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson. The novel is set in a New York City that has been flooded and altered by rising water

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fukuyamovo review

We're Cooked
https://www.americanpurpose.com/blog/fukuyama/were-cooked/

Robinson’s most recent book is his 2020 novel The Ministry for the Future, which Barack Obama named as one of his favorite books. The novel begins sometime in the mid-21st century, when global warming has continued largely unabated from the present. It begins with a massive heat wave that kills 20 million people in India in a single week, and ends, somewhat later in the century, in a happy place (spoiler alert) where enough carbon has been sucked out of the atmosphere to not just slow but to reverse global warming.

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The premise of the novel is that, following the Indian heat wave, the climate crisis has gotten so dangerous and immediate that governments around the world start throwing everything they have into fighting it. The crisis stimulates a shadowy underground movement called the Children of Kali that starts to assassinate executives of fossil fuel companies, blows up refineries, and shoots down airliners for their carbon output. Governments do not wait for international agreement, but on their own launch ambitious geo-engineering projects to do things like increase earth’s albedo or slow the melting of Antarctic glaciers. The most important initiative carried out by Mary Murphy and her Ministry is to convince a group of central bankers to issue unlimited numbers of carbon coins, which in effect pay people to either not produce or sequester carbon. Rather than making money from pumping oil and gas, fossil fuel companies find that they can earn more profits keeping their reserves in the ground. In addition to reversing the climate crisis, these massive interventions permit governments to cap incomes and institute something like universal basic income, so that everyone is protected from the huge economic disruptions that take place.

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I suppose that this novel is intended to be a hopeful blueprint for a way out of the climate crisis. Knowing what I do about global politics and human nature, however, The Ministry for the Future left me rather despairing that it will ever be solved. For all of his seeming political sophistication, Robinson posits the most optimistic possible political developments at every turn, developments that enable Russia, China, the United States, Europe, and the developing world to work together cooperatively to solve the problem. For example, the first three countries listed take their aircraft carriers out of military service and use them to support the pumping of groundwater in the Artic. After the heat catastrophe, India gets its act together and acts boldly as a world leader in geo-engineering. The assassinations of corporate executives and the downing of commercial airliners does not lead to repression of the eco-terrorists, but rather convinces people that they should travel by steamship and dirigible instead. They discover that they don’t actually need to get from Zurich to San Francisco in a day, but are much more productive spending several weeks on a ship. The massive economic downturn provoked by the effective withdrawal of liquidity produces global unemployment higher than that of the Great Depression, but it lasts less than a year as central banks create massive amounts of liquidity and are put under the effective control of the people of their respective countries. After being kidnapped and held hostage at one Davos conference, the world’s elites are safely released and agree to climb onboard with the policies demanded by their kidnappers. Five million people spontaneously march on Tiananmen Square and force the Communist Party to work to save the planet instead of prioritizing economic growth. At the same time that they deal with the climate crisis, governments around the world cap wealth and implement something like universal basic income. They do this as they are depopulating millions of square miles of their own territory and allowing it to be reclaimed by native flora and fauna.

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Robinson is right that our future depends on some big governance choices we have yet to make, both at national and international levels. I’m afraid, however, that if he’s right about the needed agenda, we’re all cooked

THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE by Kim Stanley Robinson | Orbit Books
https://www.orbitbooks.net/orbit-excerpts/the-ministry-for-the-future/

In The Ministry for the Future, the most important book on climate politics since Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything, Kim Stanley Robinson sets the scene with a hyper-lethal heatwave. It takes place in Uttar Pradesh in the year 2025. The combination of heat and humidity is such that the air feels like a sauna, impossible to escape for days on end. Human bodies cannot take it for that long. In a town near Lucknow where one of the characters, the American volunteer Frank, finds himself, families sleep on the roofs and wake up to discover that elders and children have expired during the night: ‘wails of dismay cut the air’. The corpses rot in the sun. All the air conditioners in the region overburden the electricity grid and power goes out; generators give insufficient protection; tens of thousands of panicking humans scramble into a nearby lake and sink into the water, to little avail: the lake itself feels ‘only a few degrees from boiling’. Heads with red eyes about to pop out of their sockets dot the surface, fewer and fewer alive. Some 20 million people die in the northern Indian heatwave – more than in World War I, over the course of a week. The first chapter of The Ministry for the Future is a punch in the belly of the reader. No one should then be able to put the book aside.

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Michael Dorman
https://twitter.com/MichaelDorman84/status/1401618973951729669?s=19

We'll also have to admit, at some point, that the "collapse" pathway is what humanity (as a whole) wants. It sure would look that way, from a safe distance.

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

TADEAS: Nj, ale ja Manna chapu. Je to klimatolog, nikoliv sociolog ani politolog. A ty svinarny, ktery proti nemu rozjel fosilni prumysl jsou takovy, ze tezko se tomu nevenovat :))

vystizny random quote a duvod tohoto auditka ,)

The climate crisis is outside the frame of any cultured discussion within societies of the global north. It questions everything these societies are based on.

So journalists can only minimalize the crisis. Otherwise they break the frame they are operating in. https://twitter.com/wunder2welt/status/1400824954497732611?s=19

PAD: se jeste uvidi, nemci maj pred volbama a to slibem nezarmoutis :)
"However, these financial pledges can only be approved after the German federal election in September."

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Voda z tajících grónských ledovců zamořuje pobřeží rtutí. V oblasti přitom není průmysl - Ekolist.cz
https://ekolist.cz/cz/zpravodajstvi/zpravy/voda-z-tajicich-gronskych-ledovcu-zamoruje-pobrezi-rtuti

Z tajících grónských ledovců se do řek a fjordů uvolňuje velké množství rtuti. Vysoké koncentrace tohoto těžkého kovu v tamních vodách mohou mít za následek hromadění rtuti v potravním řetězci. Zjistila to nová studie zveřejněná v žurnálu Nature Geoscience. Grónsko je přitom největším vývozcem mořských plodů a v okolních vodách se nacházejí vzácné mořské ekosystémy.

Hodnoty rtuti ve třech ledovcových řekách a třech fjordech, které vědci měřili, jsou nejvyšší v celé historii měření. Jsou dokonce srovnatelné s hodnotami naměřenými v průmyslem znečištěných čínských řekách. Již před časem některé studie upozorňovaly, že se z tajících ledovců uvolňuje do prostředí rtuť, nynější měření ale ukazují hodnoty o dva řády vyšší než se předpokládalo.

V americké Kalifornii má patnáct set vodních nádrží hladinu na polovině běžného stavu. Sucho je tam nejhorší za posledních 44 let. Kritická situace ohrožuje nejen zásobování měst pitnou vodou, ale i rozvinutý zemědělský sektor.

Kalifornii svírají extrémní sucha. Nejhorší za posledních 44 let — ČT24 — Česká televize
https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/3322104-kalifornii-sviraji-extremni-sucha-nejhorsi-za-poslednich-44-let

Melo to bejt green recovery, ale nevypada...

The nations that make up the G7 have pumped billions of dollars more into fossil fuels than they have into clean energy since the COVID-19 pandemic, despite their promises of a green recovery.
As the UK prepares to host the G7 summit, a new analysis reveals that the countries attending committed $189 billion to support oil, coal, and gas between January 2020 and March 2021. In comparison, the same countries – the UK, U.S., Canada, Italy, France, Germany and Japan – spent $147 billion on clean forms of energy.
The support for fossil fuels from seven of the world’s richest nations included measures to remove or downgrade environmental regulations as well as direct funding of oil, gas and coal.

G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy | Grist
https://grist.org/accountability/g7-nations-committing-billions-more-to-fossil-fuel-than-green-energy

KEB: Uvedomuju, ale nejsem s tim smirenej :))

TUHO: tohle ve státě, kdee rouška je symbol otroctví, nechat se očkovat z tebe udělá ovci a kde strčit decku špejli do nosu je nehorázné barbarství, doopravdy pobavilo.

Tady nedokážeš přesvědčit prostý lid, že rouška a mytí rukou je to nejmenší a nejzákladnější ochrana, že očkování je jeden z největších vynálezů lidstva a divíš se, že nebereme v potaz ipcc.

Uvedomujes si, že svět řídí lidi jako Babiš, který nedokáže říct tři věty aby dávaly smysl?

SorrY, ale muselo to ven