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I believe the Japanese saying, “Live as if you are already dead.”
Refers to being conscious, are proud of actions in life to be added to the ancestor shelf. Your descendents will have gratitude for your devotion to work, in life, to family or whatever. -
The earth’s restorable ecosystems can meet the needs of all people, but the interest bearing public debt money to private banks prevents it. The peoples GRB Eco money values natural resources and earns everyone a basic income, health care, housing, education and telecom.
Peoples GRB Eco Real-time AI Algorithm
People value natural resources at 5 quadrillion (q) ecos with the buying power of 2020 US$. US$ assets are converted to ecos and possessions are transferred by smart eco contracts. GRB gains income from an ecosystem impact fee on eco accounts and exchanges ecos with the GRB eco reserve to maintain monetary equilibrium. Peoples average ecosystem impact sets peoples eco account fees and the impact of transparent commercial eco accounts sets their fees. GRB income maintains the GRB network and basic income supports everyone for life. The GRB invests .1q ecos each in ecosystem restoration, conservation, education, green energy, recycling, science, technology, AI, health care, housing, agroecology, infrastructure, transportation, communication, disarmament, sport, art and the GRB network. The peoples feedback to the GRB rule-based algorithm regulates the value of natural resources, the GRB network percentage, and amount of basic income. The GRB is a decentralized autonomous network of people who rule the GRB eco algorithm by majority. The GRB eco accounts are accessed by biometric ID. After one year of inactivity eco accounts revert to the reserve.Peoples GRB Eco (e) Balance Sheet (quadrillions)
Assets Liabilities
5.0 natural resources 3.0 basic income for 8b+ people x e50/day x 20 years.
1.0 $ assets to e 1.8 invest in GRBnet, eco-restoration, conservation, etc.
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6.0 minus 4.8 = 1.2 reserveVision – Imagine all the people sharing all the world.
Capitalism – GRB people own and exchange property in free global markets.
Democracy – GRB people rule a direct democratic eco exchange system.
Transparency – Verifies the GRB people’s understanding and trust.
Communication – The GRBnet supplies everyone world telecom.
Steady-State – The GRB maintains a steady-state eco-economy.
World Peace – The peoples GRB network transcends borders.
GRB References – Sustainability . Free Exchange . Copionics -
I would like to see more interaction with readers. This is very important to maintain interest in the resource and the materials published on it.
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How can someone terraform Venus yeah I know it is a literal hellscape but there has to be a way to push it out of its hellscape orbit and get its axial tilt sorted.
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I was inspired by Ministry of the Future to write an essay advocating the construction of municipal cooling shelters to save the lives of vulnerable people during heat emergencies. I use humor to balance the depressing science of climate catastrophe, while providing a hopeful scenario, much like in the Ministry of the Future. It’s a short, 690-word essay that I’m hoping to publish in the appropriate climate-writing forum. Any ideas on where to send it? I’ve been working on newspapers, but they are mostly owned by the same few companies, now switching gears to climate-writing outlets.
I’ve also got a humorous collection of stories out called Capital Disrupt (March 2024), featuring a story called What We Do in the Heat, about two lovers learning to be kind to each other through an extended heat wave.
Thanks for your inspiration. I’m promoting government-funded revolving loan funds as a way to mount solar panels on 18 million sun-facing roofs over the next 18 years.
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Hello Kim, would you be open to taking part in a Climate Podcast that I am hosting for the Greenly Institute? I am the cofounder of Greenly, leading carbon accounting platform supporting 2000+ companies. Our media has 3M views & we host a 350K ESG pro community on Linkedin. Many thanks ! They would love to learn about your book.
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5104697777 Dr M. Paloma Pavel for Dr Kim Stanley Robinson
Stan- Invitation to speak with Bishop Marc Andrus series -November 16 ,2023 “Sacred Earth: Growing Beloved Community”
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Dear Mr Robinson:Congratulations on receiving the gold medal in Californiana from the Commonwealth Club. I am the leader of the Reading Californians book discussion group at the Commonwealth Club. I was wondering if you would be willing to join our book discussion when we talk about your book, The High Sierra: A Love Story? The good news is that you won’t even have to come to SF as we will do the discussion via Zoom! Our available dates (all Tuesdays) would be August 8, December 5, (in 2024) February 6 and April 2. We usually have the discussions at 5 – 6:15 p.m. but we can be flexible on the time.I look forward to hearing from you.Kalena GregoryReading CaliforniansCommonwealth Club
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Any idea how to get the email address of the man himself. Just have a question about a recent talk he gave is all
Regards.
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If Kim Stanley Robinson manage to acquire the appropriate permission from Amazon Studios/MGM Studios. You might be able extend/expand your novel the Years of of Rice and Salt by blending it/crossing it with the Stargate Franchise tv shows lore and other multimedia lore content.
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Would you please if you are in contact with the author pass the following on to him. If you manage to acquire the appropriate permission from Amazon Studios/MGM Studios. You might be able extend/expand your novel the Years of of Rice and Salt by blending it/crossing it with the Stargate Franchise tv shows lore and other multimedia lore content.
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I did not take part in an iinterview. I simply sent in a note pointing out the tight link between climate change and global population. If we don’t deal with latter, we cannot deal with the former. I am willing to discuss this in an interview, but I have not been asked, as yet.
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The world’s “experts” are contantly getting the cause of climate change wrong. The majority of them (including the latest UN IPCC report) focusses on emmissions. “if we can get emmissions down by switching to renewable or solar or nuclear energy, that will solve the problem. We just need the political will to do so.” Actually, it would make no difference whatsoever until we solve the world’s biggest problem – global population. If we want to generate “political will”, we have to give them sound information. People cause climate change. If population grows from 8 billion people to 10 billion by ~2050, then emissions will rise regardless of what forms of energy we use. The extra people will heat homes, drive cars, clear fields, and cause industry to raise their emmissions. Getting global population under control is key to fighting climate change.
Fortunately, there is an effective and humane way to do this that the “experts” are not talking about – global education. Many studies (including one by the UN) have suggested that increasing education can lower fertility rates by as much as a factor of 3. Smarter women and men have fewer babies. If we can get population growth stopped, then we have a chance to prevent futher damage to the planet from climate change. If we don’t, it won’t matter. Millions or perhaps billions will die. That’s solving the problem the Hard Way!
Dave Mackidd Calgary Alberta Canada mackidddave4@gmail.com 403-968-6904
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Terrific site! In the recent New Yorker KSR profile, author Joshua Rothman mentions a 2015 essay, “What Can’t Happen Won’t”. I haven’t been able to find this – does anyone know if this essay is available?
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Looks like this is the same as ‘Our Generation Ships Will Sink‘, as per ISFDB.
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I notice that when you revmamped the Forums section of the site, it returned to oldest first. Most recent first would be more convenient, I think.
Thanks
John
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Fixed. IT problems arise from time to time, I deal with them ASAP!
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Is there a way to do display comment showing most recent at top?
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Done!
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The list of Italian translations is a bit outdated. Here is an up-to-date list. Picture of covers can be easily found on the publisher’s websites on on on-line bookshops like Amazon.
- La costa dei barbari (“The Wild Shore”, Mondadori Editore, 1990, ISBN 9788835600350, translated by G. L. Staffilano)
- Costa delle palme (“The Gold Coast”, Mondadori Editore, 1994, ISBN 9788804377634, translated by G. Alnieri)
- Gli anni del riso e del sale (“The Years of Rice and Salt”, Newton Compton Editori, 2007, ISBN 9788854107564, translated by B. Corda and F. Toticchi)
- Il rosso di Marte (“Red Mars”, Fanucci Editore, 2016, ISBN 9788834730959, translated in 1995 by M. Carità)
- Il verde di Marte (“Green Mars”, Fanucci Editore, 2016, ISBN 9788834731437, translated by A. Guarnieri)
- Il blu di Marte (“Blue Mars”, Fanucci Editore, 2017, ISBN 9788834732816, translated by A. Guarnieri)
- New York 2140 (Fanucci Editore, 2017, ISBN 9788834734032, translated by A. Guarnieri)
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After a few years of thinking through the concept of The Long Emergency, as a way to communicate and a way to act, I went and registered the primary domains. Now I’m thinking about how to put them to good use. Not as a “scare the people straight” but as a positive tool for collaboration around the issues from the level of policy down to adaption and global accomodation.
While I have a bunch of concrete thoughts, I would like to see what others think. I’m not a social media person, be gentle 🙂
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what do you think about the”The Man in the High Castle’? being filmed.
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Technically it looks very impressive and sleek, like most TV productions the quality is really high. I have only seen the pilot. There is enough worldbuilding potential to sustain a series, however this is rather off the point the book tries to make. I don’t know how they’ll handle the whole forgery / “fakeness of reality” aspect, which is the core of the book, and which sounds like a recipe for disaster for a TV show if they base a whole mystery around it for years on end and build expectations towards “that” reveal.
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A quote from Green Mars on http://www.breakingillusion.com
Kim Stanley Robinsons work is simply extraordinary.
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I am finally about half the way through [i]Galileo s Dream[/i], after having renewed it with my local library approximately six times in as many months. It is once again due to be returned one day before the release of [i]Aurora[/i]. I have a dilemma: do I return the book and rush out to purchase the new adventure, or do I adhere to the patience with which I have been reading the former? In [i]Galileo s Dream[/i] the themes are so bold and the language so intricate I must go this slow to digest it properly. A compliment to KSR is that I can usually read a book quickly, but with his works I do not wish to miss anything; I will read a page, or chapter, close the book, and think on what I have read for days.
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Not knowing what the above may portend I humbly abstain. First I am not a writer I am a muse. That is I freely give great ideas to writers for what it’s worth. For example, RAH wrote the “Puppet masters” wonderful science fiction satire. Just imagine though if the slugs returned with a proposal that would allow humans to voluntarily accept symbionts for the benefits accrued from suddenly acquiring a super intellect and body control possible only with 4 pounds of additional
functioning grey matter. If the slugs agreed to a partnership rather than total control wouldn’t some adventuresome people try it? Think of the possibilities as well as the risks. This is just one example of the myriad ideas I have to offer. I always wanted to try expanding on some of Heinleins stories. Or write an ode titled “TANSTAAFL”. Catchy right? In the proper hands the commercial possibilities of continuing to right tales in the universe of Oscar Gorden or Lazarus Long. Of course my lockerful of original concept material is equally bountiful. I hope this note may find it’s way to an interested or even an interesting writer. Your servant sir. -
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Hi there Kim from a big fan.
Here’s some ideas for a future novel, it’s a story I wrote, mostly unknown, a successful anarcha-feminist revolution set in the near future amid climate chaos and the collapse of capitalism.. also funny, tragic…. 💡 💡
You can read it online or download at the above site.
Great to see you still going strong, we’re almost the same age!
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Hi Kim,
I’m currently in the process of making a new space series for Discovery and there are a few stories that we would really appreciate your input on. Is there an email I could send you more information to?
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Hello,
I am organising a conference in Grenoble University (France) about new textual genres developing today in relation to climate change. I would love to invite Kim Stanley Robinson to talk about the novels he has written about climate change but can find no way of contacting him. Would there be any way you could advise me ?
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This article in the BBC news entitled “Applicants wanted for a one way ticket to Mars” reads almost like the first chapter of Red Mars.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22146456 -
I have read the trilogy and ‘The Martians’ and found I am always trying to find a map or illustration… So I compiled a list. Here goes…
RED MARS
Frontispiece, Mars Map, 2 pages
Page 110 The Martian Calendar Year 1, (2027 AD)
Pages 196,197,198 Greimas Schematic RectangleGREEN MARS
Frontispiece, Mars Map, 2 pages
Page 30 Map: Mars Polar Region
Page 130 Map: Burroughs C. 2100 AD
Page 500 Map: Burroughs Region
Page 537 Diagram: Temperature ComparisonsBLUE MARS
Frontispiece, Mars Map, 2 pages
Sub-Frontispiece,The Martian Calendar Year 1, (2027 AD)
Page 6 Map: Pavonis Mons Caldera (Sheffield)
Page 208 Map: Tempe Terra (Kasei Fjord)
Page 308 Map: North Sea Polar Projection (North Pole)
Page 334 Map: Chryse Gulf (Da Vinci, Kasei Fjord, Sinai Peninsula)
Page 450 Map: The Grand Canal (Isidus Bay, Hellas Sea, Odessa)
Page 549 Map: Olympus Mons CalderaThe Martians
Frontispiece, Mars Map, 2 pages (From BLUE MARS)-
It may interest you to know that [u]The Years of Rice and Salt[/u] inspired this map: [url]http://www.cyon.se/#!alkebu-lan/ck0q[/url]
[quote=Jeffrey A. Ehrnman]I have read the trilogy and “The Martians” and found I am always trying to find a map or illustration… So I compiled a list. Here goes…
RED MARS
Frontispiece, Mars Map, 2 pages
Page 110 The Martian Calendar Year 1, (2027 AD)
Pages 196,197,198 Greimas Schematic RectangleGREEN MARS
Frontispiece, Mars Map, 2 pages
Page 30 Map: Mars Polar Region
Page 130 Map: Burroughs C. 2100 AD
Page 500 Map: Burroughs Region
Page 537 Diagram: Temperature ComparisonsBLUE MARS
Frontispiece, Mars Map, 2 pages
Sub-Frontispiece,The Martian Calendar Year 1, (2027 AD)
Page 6 Map: Pavonis Mons Caldera (Sheffield)
Page 208 Map: Tempe Terra (Kasei Fjord)
Page 308 Map: North Sea Polar Projection (North Pole)
Page 334 Map: Chryse Gulf (Da Vinci, Kasei Fjord, Sinai Peninsula)
Page 450 Map: The Grand Canal (Isidus Bay, Hellas Sea, Odessa)
Page 549 Map: Olympus Mons CalderaThe Martians
Frontispiece, Mars Map, 2 pages (From BLUE MARS)
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j’aime beaucoup vos livres,
depuis plusieurs années
merci
vraiment
je vous souhaite d’être heureux, empli de bonheurs
bien sincèrement
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Nice! I have your contact details, we’ll see what I can do 😉
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Hello. I teach at Mondragon University, which is affiliated with the Mondragon cooperative group KSR mentions a few times in the Mars Trilogy. I just read a review of his work in the American Prospect and it inspired me to try to invite him to visit Mondragon. 💡 Alas, I can’t find a way to contact him or an agent. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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I am currently reading Green Mars after enjoying Red Mars. I must tell/ask you about something I read in National Geographic (7/11). In Red mars, KSR wrote of a “tethered elevator” between Earth & Mars. Well, it is discussed as a potential reality in the above Nat’l Geo on pages 34-35!!! Is there is any way to tell KSR about this? So cool!
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I am currently reading Green Mars after enjoying Red Mars. I must tell/ask you about something I read in National Geographic (7/11). In Red mars, KSR wrote of a “tethered elevator” between Earth & Mars. Well, it is discussed as a potential reality in the above Nat’l Geo on pages 34-35!!! Is there is any way to tell KSR about this? So cool!
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The Edge magazine (May, 1996)
Interview discussing politics, futurism, the Mars trilogy, The Three Californias, Memory of Whiteness (by Mike Don)at
http://www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk/robinsoniview.htmPS The Strange Horizons interviewer was Lynne Jamneck.
David (I hope it’s Ok for editors to add their own stuff here! I honestly do think it’s a fine interview).
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Hi David,
Thanks for the info; I’ve also added this to our more comprehensive interview list:
http://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/w/index.php5?title=List_of_interviews#1996
Do you know if this interview appears in a print issue of The Edge, or was it a web-only interview?
Also, the site indicates that the interview first appeared in Mike’s Dreamberry Wine; do you happen to know when that might have been?
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Kim Stanley Robinson Short Speech Accepting Thankyou Gifts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYZKumE3VMBioethics of Terraforming panel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2eSC9Xbexw-
Kim Stanley Robinson Short Speech Accepting Thankyou Gifts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYZKumE3VMBioethics of Terraforming panel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2eSC9XbexwSorry did not add urls as links…
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Thank you Adam! Will add them up to the list at the wiki shortly!
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Sun Symbiosis – by Forrest Sol
The following review of my unpublished first novel was written by the best-selling science fiction author Piers Anthony. It can be found in the June, 2010 newsletter on his website:
“I read Sun Symbiosis, by Forrest Sol, a pen name for a PhD in environmental science. This is presented as a novel, but is actually a book-length essay phrased as an extended interview. I had to tell the author that it really didn’t work for me as a novel, because there is no human interaction other than between the interviewer and his subject, both male. A novel does better with a rich background of science or fantasy and a telling human story, preferably a romantic one, and perhaps a moral theme. An example is the movie Avatar. I’m not sure whether that was a novel first, but if so, it was surely a good one. Sun Symbiosis has the background, and is in fact a work of formidable imagination, and a moral theme: saving the environment. The author clearly knows what he is talking about; I am judging not by his doctorate but by my own awareness of the issues. For example he has a major project to reverse global warming by flooding deserts with sea water and letting it evaporate. Ah, I thought, but that would load the land with salt. Then he addressed that aspect too, so it was factored in. He addresses the arguments made by the naysayers, those who prefer to pretend that there is no warming, and if there is, it is not by human hand. There is an impassioned speech made by the female president of the USA invoking God, I think not really as a religious concept, but as a common belief most of the world shares, so that there can be a way to unify diverse people in the effort to save the planet. “You are right to believe in God. I know that some of you become very uncomfortable when I speak this way. If it is any consolation to the skeptics, I have great respect for science, and I defer to the advice of scientists in all technical matters. But it is also science that informs my faith. And it is my joy to affirm the miracle that nature and the natural world are more clear than any ancient text written by human hands in the search for consciousness greater than our own.” As a lifelong agnostic I find this a worthy statement.
But this is only part of it. Much of the story centers around a special project to study dark energy. This president fully supported that, and it seemed to be on the verge of a phenomenal breakthrough, when she abruptly canceled it, erased the records, and arranged to have laws passed to prevent any continuation of the study made for three generations. What happened? That is the mystery of this story. Because as it turns out, they discovered a universe of dark energy beings who might be considered alive but not at all in the manner we think of life. One inhabits the sun, and is a significant component of it. Others travel across the universe to tune in on the flickering consciousnesses that we know as people. It seems the dark energy beings are addicted to consciousness; it’s like a drug or perhaps pornography. We are not aware of them, and they do not harm us; they are part of that other, overlapping realm we can barely fathom even conceptually. But with this dark energy project we could become aware of them, and just possibly interact with them. Are we as a species mature enough to safely do that? Maybe in three generations.
So I deem this book not to be a proper novel, and I suspect the average reader would not understand or appreciate it. But it ranges into territory that not much science fiction does, and I think it should be worth the while of the intelligent, motivated, moral (in the sense of doing what is best for the world) reader. If it can find a publisher.” -
[b]Testing[/b] this system… 😡
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