Panic! Don’t Panic! Panic!
I’ve been reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s trilogy on global climate change, which I heard about in an engaging interview on Tech Nation. It’s hard to be immersed in that world of sudden, violent storms and weather triggered by climate change and not imagine that every storm we have isn’t a harbinger of much, much worse things to come. But I remind myself that although much, much worse things are indeed on the way, a bit of wind and rain is normal.
Then I see things like the big melt in Antarctica, thank you very much Tim, and I snap back into the-sky-is-falling mode. Worrying about the coming global shitstorm.
So Tim. As part of your CGS news blackout, I suggest that you do not read these books. A pity, since they’re good.
23 May 2007 Sam
Don’t read _Mother_of_Storms_ by John Barnes, either. He predates KSR’s CGS writing by a good decade.
Early review (no warranties) at:
http://www.epiphyte.net/SF/mother-of-storms.html
I’ve been curious about those books and I think I’ll check them out eventually.
I agree: “Panic, Don’t Panic”. One of the features of The CGS is that it is always “coming” and never “arriving”
on the other hand, if things progress as they are, then we are going to be treated to the spectacle of watching billions of people die from war, hunger, natural disasters and disease. so…. Panic!