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Re:Wet-Bulb Temperature by allemagne on Monday August 28, 2023 @11:38AM (#37295834)
There was about paragraph or so spent on that realistic response, and then huge swathes dedicated to India switching to collectivized farming (a la early Soviet Union), the world's central banks putting carbon offsets onto a blockchain, and millions of Americans willingly displacing themselves to create a giant wildlife preserve in the midwest.
Re:Wet-Bulb Temperature by ch4s3 on Monday August 28, 2023 @12:00PM (#37296171)
KSR is sliding in the direction of outright promotion of eco-fascism and I can't say it makes for good literature.
Re:Wet-Bulb Temperature by hoseja on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @02:51AM (#37304229)
I've definitively soured on him after that dolphin chapter.
Re:Wet-Bulb Temperature by ch4s3 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @10:49AM (#37308760)
I can't find that part now, but there's plenty of really rotten stuff in the book.
Re:Wet-Bulb Temperature by alangibson on Monday August 28, 2023 @12:00PM (#37296187)
> millions of Americans willingly displacing themselves

As far fetched as any science fiction ever written