Weather Reports: The Climate of the Future
Submitted by KimonHarvard Divinity School: Weather Reports
Monday, November 22, 2021, 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Kim Stanley Robinson, novelist, will present "The Climate of the Future."
Kim Stanley Robinson’s thriller The Ministry for the Future (2020) is science fiction that reads as hard-edged journalism. With short chapters and a myriad of characters, Robinson creates a kaleidoscope of perspectives on a global climate collapse coming in 2025. Bill McKibben writes “In Kim Stanley Robinson’s anti-dystopian novel, climate change is the crisis that finally forces mankind to deal with global inequality.” At heart an optimist, Robinson lays out a possible path to move forward with faith in what we can create together in a post-capitalist world.
Respondent: Sarah Dimick, Assistant Professor of English, Harvard University
Brian Kirbis of Theasophia will open the conversation with a tea pouring. Each conversation will be conducted online by Terry Tempest Williams, writer-in-residence at Harvard Divinity School.
This series is a Constellation Project in partnership with the Center of the Study of World Religions, Religion and Public Life, and the Planetary Health Alliance.
For more information, visit the event page. Registration is required.