An Astrobiologist Asks a Sci-fi Novelist How to Survive the Anthropocene - Issue 15: Turbulence
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Humans will have a chance to prove their adaptability as the Earth undergoes unprecedented challenges in the Anthropocene, an era named after our impact on the biosphere. To learn what it takes to survive far into the future, astrobiologist David Grinspoon interviewed Kim Stanley Robinson, a writer regarded as one of the most important science fiction and political novelists alive today. Robinson’s recent book, 2312, permits humans to survive near-extinction and populate the solar system over the course of 300 years. We decided to kick off the conversation with a 2312 excerpt from the chapter, “Earth, The Planet of Sadness:” “Clean tech came too late to save Earth from the catastrophes of the early Anthropocene. It was one of the ironies of their time that they could radically change the (...)
