The heat waves of the future could produce deadly “wet bulb temperatures” that would kill millions of people by sheer heat exhaustion. How will governments, citizens and international organizations react, if a heat wave killed 20 million people in India? That is the premise of the novel “The Ministry for the Future” – a novel that mixes science fiction and environmentalism.
The guest on the premiere episode of the fifth season of Planet A is renowned science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson. In “The Ministry for the Future”, he writes about a dystopian, near future where the devastating consequences of climate change are ravaging the world. The book describes how governments and philanthropists try to use geoengineering, like spraying sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere or capturing meltwater of The Greenland Ice Sheet to stem climate change.
While his book “The Ministry for the Future” invites readers into a world where nothing is unthinkable and everything is possible, the solutions he describes are not all science fiction.
And in this episode of Planet A he discusses the promise and perils of geoengineering, the COP-process, the current energy crisis and whether we need nuclear energy in the global green transition with host Minister Dan Jørgensen.
Confronting the New Climate War
Preserving Our Future with Noah’s Ark for Plants
The Green Blueprint: EU Commissioner on the Union’s Climate Strategy
A talk with Germany’s Special Climate Envoy
A Small Island Nation’s Climate Challenge
Ajay Banga’s Vision for the World Bank: Combating Both Climate Change and Poverty
COP28 - A Historic Turn in Climate Politics?
COP28 – The Eleventh Hour
Tomas Anker Christensen - An update on the COP28 negotiations
Bangladesh Today: A Window to the World’s Future
Mafalda Duarte - Supporting Developing Countries while Taking Care of the Climate
Claude Turmes - A Fossile Free Ride
Henrik Stiesdal - On developing the modern wind turbine and offshore wind technology
Chris Bowen – Changing the course of Australian Climate Policy
Achim Steiner - How to Fight Poverty and Climate Change at the Same Time
Graham Hill - What Difference can an Individual Make?
Rainn Wilson - Is there Anything Funny to Say about Climate Change?
Angela Carter - On National Bans and Global Commitments to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
The Road to COP28 - with Climate Ambassador Tomas Anker Christensen
Simon Stiell - On UNFCCC, the COP process and the Global Stocktake
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