• will_a113@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Every time I read a story about some billionaire getting angry about their private jets being tracked I recall a part of the Kim Stanley Robinson novel Ministry for the Future, a (very) near-future tale about how a few global climate catastrophes wreak such havoc that regular people start taking extreme measures – for example randomly shooting down passenger aircraft for months, causing the collapse of the air travel industry. I have to imagine that the 1%ers are thinking about that too now.

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      8 months ago

      That book is a not-so-covert manifesto, I swear.

      In the book, I noticed upon re-reading – it was always the biggest polluters (usually, the richest of the rich) that had unfortunate drone-strikes while flying.

      Not the electric planes. No commuter planes. Straight up 1%-er targets.

      B admits to it later on in the book, when they hint B might be Mother.

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        8 months ago

        Kim Stanley Robinson is likely one of the best sci fi authors alive. You generally can’t go wrong with his stuff.

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        It was kind of a difficult read for me - things just hit a little too close to home for me, and the resolution was too perfect. I’d still recommend it though - at the end of the day it’s still Kim Stanley Robinson, and he is an absolute master of hard social-scifi.

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        I would say it is an okay book. It’s a little too optimistic on the human side which his books all tend to be. It’s worth a read though of only to give some idea of possibilities.