abfab interview with Kim Stanley Robinson

2 thoughts on “abfab interview with Kim Stanley Robinson”

1. Like everyone else I tend to like what I agree with. The passage quoted below from this interview was, I think, particularly telling. ALL global problems are at root problems of human population…

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   We use “global warming” after all as code to speak of a much larger environmental crisis, and that crisis is in part the result of too many humans on the planet using a destructive technology to live by, and so human population is a crucial issue, not always linked to the other problems, when actually it is central. And human population drops to replacement rates or below when social justice prevails, especially when women have full legal rights to their lives, along with a minimally acceptable standard of living. So social justice, impossible in capitalism because of capitalism’s basic hierarchical power structure, is necessary to environmental health and human survival. So these forces, democracy and social justice, align with science in a larger project of survivability of the species. But it is an anti-capitalist project in the end.

2. Capitalism has been good to me. It’s a really hard problem.