Name: Remembering climate change ... a message from the year 2071
Uploaded: 2021-08-02T14:56:50Z
Duration: 9 min 58 s
Description: Coming to us from 50 years in the future, legendary sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson tells the "history" of how humanity ended the climate crisis and restored the damage done to Earth's biosphere. A rousing vision of how we might unite to overcome the greatest challenge of our time.

Kim Stanley Robinson: Remembering climate change ... a message from the year 2071

Remembering climate change ... a message from the year 2071

Coming to us from 50 years in the future, legendary sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson tells the "history" of how humanity ended the climate crisis and restored the damage done to Earth's biosphere. A rousing vision of how we might unite to overcome the greatest challenge of our time.

The 2020s began with pandemics and deadly heat waves, forcing humanity to confront the fragility of civilization and the reality of a shared biosphere. A radical shift in global finance, including the adoption of a 'carbon standard,' made restorative work finally pay. Science, government, and the arts joined forces to reverse environmental destruction and prevent mass extinction. Looking back sixty years later, what felt impossible became a testament to human ingenuity and resolve.