Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. His most recent books are The Ministry for the Future and The High Sierra: a Love Story. He went to Antarctica in 1995 and 2016, courtesy of the US National Science Foundation. He was a featured speaker at COP-26 in 2021, and at the UN’s Summit of the Future in 2024. His work has been translated into 29 languages. In 2016 asteroid 72432 was named “Kimrobinson.”
I’m hoping to speak to the situation of polycrisis we find ourselves in, and what we can do to get through the next decades without causing a mass extinction event that will hammer human civilization. Getting through this “eye of the needle” moment in world history will require fundamental changes in governance and finance, but models for the changes are already in the world and can help guide us going forward.
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Institutional innovation in an unsecure world
