The Inconvenient Truth from The Ministry for the Future

Violence might become necessary

The Ministry for the Future is a book by Kim Stanley Robinson in which he tries to lay down a possible scenario for dealing with the climate crisis in the coming decades.

To solve the problem United Nations came up with an organisation called The Ministry for the future, which was

“… set up after the Paris meeting of 2024. They thought it would be a good idea to create an agency tasked with representing the interests of the generations to come. And the interests of those entities that can never speak for themselves, like animals and watersheds.”

Throughout the book the UN and the Ministry is just going from one conference to another, really not doing much more than their conferencing thing.

But the real progress picks up only after a terrorist group named “Children of Kali” takes matters into their own hands.

What do they do?

They hack into Swiss banks and wipe out their massive bank accounts, they highjack climate conferences and hold the panelists hostage, they target billionaires’ private jets and smash them to the ground. You know, fun stuff! Soon enough CEO’s, politicians and billionaires go into a self-imposed lockdown and indeed start…