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#KimStanleyRobinson's #MinistryForTheFuture was groundbreaking, depicting a detailed, plausible transition from a world barreling towards a civilization-ending climate catastrophe to a world that meets the challenge as humanity decides to save itself:

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Robinson's book is important: it not only disproves the (variously attributed) #CapitalistRealism aphorism that "it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism" - it also imagines the means by which that ending was brought about. 3/
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MINISTRY OF THE FUTURE
A sci-fi novella for Twitter
Names of places, people, organisations are purely fictional. Any coincidence with real names is purely accidental

ACROSS Europe the forest fires began to rage. The war began the same day. This was a summer like no other.
Water and chemicals were needed at the fire frontline. But there was no transport. XR climate rebels had disabled retail gas and petrol chains everywhere last winter. And recovery had been slow.
Electric vehicles could not reach the fire. Where they could, batteries began exploding in the intense heat. As firefighters turned back, the unchecked flames began to sweep over the land. Rural Europe would never be the same again....
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