This should come as no surprise if you’re familiar with Naomi Klein’s 2007 book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. While the pandemic has killed millions of people around the world and doubled the global poverty rate, it’s been kind to the world’s richest people, further widening the already gaping wealth disparity between the haves and the have-nots. “Ecology without class struggle is gardening.” -Chico Mendes, Brazilian trade union leader and environmentalistĭuring the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s 2,365 billionaires became $4 trillion-or 54 percent-richer, according to a March 2021 analysis from the Program on Inequality at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). “The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority in the interest of the immense majority.” -Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto We’re on Twitter and Instagram, and our website is .Īnd now, here’s part one of our discussion of New York 2140. If you’d like to support further production of the show, consider becoming a member on Patreon for as little as $1 per month. Part two will cover a discussion of major themes and will be available a few weeks after the release of part one. You’re listening to part one, where we’ll provide a plot summary of the book. It’s a long one, so we’re covering it in two parts.
Today, we’re talking about Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel New York 2140. You’re listening to Stories for Earth, a podcast about everything climate change in pop culture. I’m Forrest Brown, and you’re listening to Stories for Earth. His latest novel, The Ministry for the Future, was published in fall 2020. He holds a BA in literature from UC San Diego, an MA in English from Boston University, and a PhD in English from UC San Diego, and he has taught at UC Davis and the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Clarke Awards for his literary contributions to science fiction. The author of over 19 books and numerous short stories, Robinson has been awarded the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. His books frequently incorporate themes of climate change, sustainability, nature, environmental justice, and critiques of capitalism. Born in Waukegan, Illinois in 1952, Robinson moved to Southern California as a child but has also lived in Washington, D.C. Kim Stanley Robinson is a literary science fiction writer from Davis, California. About the creator By Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0,
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