Kim Stanley Robinson is set to attend the COP26 in Glasgow. Picture: IAN FORSYTH/BLOOMBERG
In November, if all goes well, I will take part in the most important climate talks in six years as a speaker in some associated activities — in fact, as a science fiction writer. Probably I’m not the only person who finds this a little bizarre.
This is one way of describing the role science fiction performs in our culture. It hearkens back to the ancient prophets, famously disregarded in their own country but listened to for a simple reason: they speak from the future. We’re always interested in the future. It’s a distinctively human trait. We can’t help thinking about the future, and often we try to shape it. This is a felt need in every person’s mental life.
The delegates must feel an enormous pressure to invent and agree to striking and significant goals. At the same time, they’re no more than national representatives assigned to work for national interests. There will likely be other representatives in their governments working diligently against their efforts. Balances between national interests and the global good will have to be kept.
The case will need to be made, in Glasgow and all over the world, that the nations that decarbonise fastest will do the best in the coming century, reaping benefits beyond any profits to be made by joining a fire sale of fossil fuels. All carbon reserves on Earth are now stranded assets, as poisonous to those who sell them as to those who buy and burn them. If warming temperatures are to remain below 1.
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