tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post5100530663084687391..comments2023-10-24T08:13:45.842-06:00Comments on Only in New Mexico: trump and climate change explainedJim Bacahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14019944863771287149noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post-45096201725349708102017-03-26T09:30:03.524-06:002017-03-26T09:30:03.524-06:00“It’s about climate change and sea level rise, but...“It’s about climate change and sea level rise, but it’s also about the way that our economic system doesn’t allow us to afford a decent future. As one of the characters says early in the book, “We’ve got good tech, we’ve got a nice planet, but we’re fucking it up by way of stupid laws.”<br />Finance, globalization—this current moment of capitalism—has a stranglehold on the world by way of all our treaties and laws, but it adds up to a multigenerational Ponzi scheme, an agreement on the part of everybody to screw the future generations for the sake of present profits. By the logic of our current system we have to mess up the Earth, and that is crazy. My new novel explores this problem and how we might get out of it.” Kim Stanley Robinson (Scientific American interview 3/13/17) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/q-a-kim-stanley-robinson-explains-how-he-flooded-manhattan/Dr. Saxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04207264787485150414noreply@blogger.com