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I haven't read anything so comprehensive about the future, and kept on thinking this is what we need... A Ministry for the Future that can see the big picture and bring us back from the brink. I wish the book wasn't fiction!

A Manifesto For The Future

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Recensito in Italia il 19 febbraio 2022

You may have read other books about the future of humankind through climate crisis (like the great “The Uninhabitable Earth” by Wallace-Well) but this one is slightly different, because the author tries to imagine how people will react to this crisis and to do that it employs the medium of the novel. So there are some characters, and a plot, but some chapters are more like some extracts from a climate crisis manifesto, full of ideas on how to cope with that. And in my opinion they are so brilliant that are more interesting than the plot in itself (that, to tell you the truth, sometime gets a bit boring). Said that, if I was a green politician, a future eco-terrorist, an extinction rebellion activist or even a simple person aware of the current situation we’re living, this would be my Gospel.

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Awesome idea, partially ruined by a useless love story

Edoardo Torrenti

Recensito in Italia il 25 settembre 2023

The book has everything to become something to give to colleagues and friends in order for them to better understand where we are (might be?) going as a society, but the whole book is plagues with a totally useless love story.

very small font, impossible to read

Cliente Amazon

Recensito in Italia il 25 marzo 2024

be careful, found it impossible to read in this minuscule font

Gianluca Giudici

carattere troppo PICCOLO

Recensito in Italia il 1 febbraio 2024

carattere di stampa troppo piccolo; sono stato costretto a comprare la copia con copertina rigida di formato più grande.

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Bel titolo, promettente primo capitolo. Poi il disastro.

Marco Andolfato

Recensito in Italia il 6 marzo 2022

Un bel titolo, un primo capitolo molto promettente, poi 105 capitoli di confusione. Quasi 600 pagine di una storia che si racconta in 30 righe, un minestrone assurdo di capitoli in prima persona (sempre da persone diverse), flussi di coscienza, tirate sui benefici delle criptovalute, minute di riunioni del ministero, riflessioni banali sul senso della vita e della morte scritte con tono da santone, rivolte nelle miniere, spedizioni scientifiche in Antartide. C’è un capitolo scritto da un fotone, un altro da un atomo di carbonio. Almeno metà dei capitoli sono totalmente avulsi dalla storia, quando pensi che il racconto si avvii verso la fine ti becchi un capitolo su Hong Kong nel 2047 che sembra arrivare da un altro libro.
Un libro superficiale e presuntuoso. Superficiale perché poco accurato (un barcone di migranti viene fatto sbarcare a Trieste, un capitoletto sulla cromodinamica quantistica è pieno di errori) e perché spesso stereotipato (non li ho contati, ma i riferimenti agli svizzeri precisi e noiosi e a Zurigo ordinata e solida saranno almeno 50 nel libro). Presuntuoso perché scritto con un tono che non lascia scampo dal punto di vista ideologico e che cerca continuamente l’effetto dal punto di vista stilistico. Con una scrittura fatta di frasi brevi. Troppo brevi. Fino a stancare. Decisamente un libro pessimo. Non so come ho fatto ad arrivare in fondo. Ma ce l’ho fatta. Ne valeva la pena? No di certo.

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Michael M. Berrow

A brilliant exposition of the calamity we face and the frictions opposing effective action.

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 23 marzo 2024

This book is a work of genius. I should declare immediately that I am a ‘doomer’. I consider that humanity is now too far down the road of climate altering action and general resource overshoot to make the effective U-turn that most fervently hope to be possible.
The book is constructed as a very clever series of mostly short chapters that both educate and keep the plot moving.
Some chapters follow the main characters as they struggle creatively and mightily to force the entrenched powers-that-be to take an increasingly more radical approach to the efforts needed to turn spaceship Earth around from unmitigated disaster. Other chapters provide haunting and jarring vignettes in the form of first-person accounts of events occurring around the world. Interleaved with the above are short, informative and insightful essays on various relevant topics such as capitalist economics, international politics. PTSD, geoengineering, climate refugees, species extinction and alternative economic mechanisms.
The titular organization which came to be known colloquially as ‘The Ministry for the Future’ is started as a quasi-independent spin-off from the United Nations. Its charter was to represent, on the world stage, the future generations of humans (current children included) as if they were a significant country and constituency. To give them a voice.
The book begins with Frank May, an aid worker in India, who is caught up in an extremely lethal heatwave. This event is quite traumatic, and it kills about twenty million people. The shock waves from this event set a lot of things in motion including a very bold and radical action taken unilaterally by India. Multiple geoengineering efforts are undertaken. A radical restructuring of the worlds deeply entrenched financial systems is both persuaded and forced with much pushback from financiers, central bankers, oligarchs and the wealthy elites.
Eventually more than 100 million refugees all over the world are on the move and bold solutions have to be found for them. Airships replace planes for air travel and solar/wind powered multi-masted schooners reappear on the oceans. Large scale wildlife corridors are established all over the planet. The earth is allowed to heal.
As a doomer and pessimist, I have to say that I was very impressed. This book gave me a lot of new perspectives. It made me feel a small chink of hope. Robinsons prose is excellent and is a pleasure to read. His arguments are mostly quite solid. However, Robinson often seems rather naïve (or else prone to wishful thinking) as to the feasibility of getting the entrenched power-elites to radically rethink their world views.
On the other hand, perhaps the power of the masses really can be brought to bear if enough people wake up.
As he says, “When push comes to shove, it’s always humans looking at humans; and when a thousand people stand looking at one person, it’s clear who has more power”.
In the end, I was convinced that these are the kinds of things that we (humanity as a whole) *should* be doing and indeed should have started doing long ago. The book is particularly realistic in the sense that the events described take place over a period of some forty years. There is no quick fix to our predicament if indeed there is a fix at all.
This is a significant book. The fact that it made a doomer like me stop and think “What if that could still work?” and “m..m..maybe” surprised me. Highly recommended.

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Incredibly Captivating

Recensito in Canada il 28 febbraio 2024

This book is extremely interesting and engrossing. Even if you are not familiar or very interested in climate change the scenarios and characters Robinson includes in the book make it a very compelling story. The book is also incredibly well written, allowing all readers to understand any of the more technical economic or geoengineering components of the book.

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JenniferB

Lectura indispensable

Recensito in Messico il 10 novembre 2022

De pesadilla inicial a posibles soluciones al cambio climático que, aunque las presenta en forma de ficción, podrían ser viables de verdad. Ojalá todos los políticos y banqueros leyeran este libro.

Ton Driessen

Heel goed en prettig leesbaar boek

Recensito nei Paesi Bassi il 15 aprile 2024

Dit boek maakt je op een prettige wijze meer dan bewust van de gevolgen van de klimaatwijziging voor de komende tientallen jaren. En hoe moeilijk het is om de transitie naar een duurzaam leefbaar klimaat te realiseren.

Nota bene

Visionär und beängstigend realistisch

Recensito in Germania il 22 agosto 2023

Ein aussergewöhnliches Buch, das einen nicht loslässt. Politthriller, Zukunftsvision und Aufklärung über die Klima- und Umweltkatastrophe in einem. In den 2030er Jahren sieht er weltweit Kräfte am Werk, die versuchen, die Menschheit und den Planeten noch zu retten: zwischen globaler Notenbankpolitik und Terrorismus, Basisdemokratie und Gaiautopien kommt alles vor. Darin verwoben die Schilderung persönlicher Schicksale ohne falsche Romantik. Sehr packend, absolut empfelenswert!