The Ministry for the Future

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by Kim Stanley Robinson

The new organisation, founded in 2025, had a simple mission: to advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It was quickly dubbed the Ministry for the Future, and here is its narrative.

Kim Stanley Robinson, the great science fiction novelist, has created a vision of climate change unlike any other.

The Ministry For The Future is an imaginative masterpiece that tells the story of how climate change will affect us all in the coming decades entirely through fictional eyewitness accounts.

Its backdrop is not a dismal, post-apocalyptic world, but a near-future future in which humanity may just overcome the great obstacles we confront.

It is a novel that is both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful, and one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written.

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So, is there energy enough for all? Yes. Is there food enough for all? Yes. Is there housing enough for all? There could be, there is no real problem there. Same for clothing. Is there health care enough for all? Not yet, but there could be; it’s a matter of training people and making small technological objects, there is no planetary constraint on that one. Same with education. So all the necessities for a good life are abundant enough that everyone alive could have them. Food, water, shelter, clothing, health care, education

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So, is there energy enough for all? Yes. Is there food enough for all? Yes. Is there housing enough for all? There could be, there is no real problem there. Same for clothing. Is there health care enough for all? Not yet, but there could be; it’s a matter of training people and making small technological objects, there is no planetary constraint on that one. Same with education. So all the necessities for a good life are abundant enough that everyone alive could have them. Food, water, shelter, clothing, health care, education

— Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future