How will humanity endure the climate crisis? I asked an acclaimed sci-fi writer | Daniel Aldana Cohen

In Kim Stanley Robinson's novel The Ministry for the Future, climate disasters kill tens of millions of people - and that's a scenario he portrays as relatively optimistic

To really grasp the present, we need to imagine the future - then look back from it to better see the now. The angry climate kids do this naturally. The rest of us need to read good science fiction. A great place to start is Kim Stanley Robinson.

Robinson is one of the most brilliant writers of the genre. During Covid quarantine, I read 11 of his books, culminating in his instant classic The Ministry for the Future, which imagines several decades of climate politics starting this decade.