The Ministry for the Future

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With so little progress being made to address the climate crisis and with no shortage of post-apocalyptic visions in film, television, and literature, where can we find the hope necessary to imagine a future where our society actually overcomes the climate crisis? Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel The Ministry for the Future attempts to fill in this gap, using speculative fiction to imagine ways in which we can still succeed over the coming decades in the struggle for climate justice. Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry For The Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades to come. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us – and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face. It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate, and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written. Imagining is a necessary precondition for solving the ecological crisis of our times.

Please join us as we work together to chart a more optimistic route through the climate crisis.

 

Fridays: April 15 & 29, May 13 & 27, June 3 & 10  from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

10 PD Hours* | 15 seats maximum. Register for The Ministry for the Future!

Book provided to participants at no cost. Please note: Books must be picked up on campus by faculty participants and can be mailed to faculty only in special cases where it is not possible for faculty to come to campus.

Led by facilitator Tyler Saxon, Economics. Please contact Sonya Doucette with questions.

Last Updated June 2, 2022