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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm FreeHow can we act fast enough to avoid the worst of the damage of climate change? Award-winning science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will discuss the political economy needed to cope with the existential threats we are facing and how he has explored this in his writing, in conversation with Professor Elizabeth Robinson, Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and LSE President Professor Larry Kramer.
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Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of about twenty books, including the internationally bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently Red Moon, New York 2140 and The Ministry for the Future. He was part of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program in 1995 and 2016, and a featured speaker at COP-26 in Glasgow, as a guest of the UK government and the UN. His work has been translated into 28 languages, and won awards including the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. In 2016 asteroid 72432 was named “Kimrobinson.”
Elizabeth Robinson is Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE.
Larry Kramer is President and Vice Chancellor of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a renowned legal scholar and teacher, a former Dean of the Stanford Law School, and a former President of the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. More about this event
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This event is part of the LSE Festival: Power and Politics running from Monday 10 to Saturday 15 June 2024, with a series of events exploring how power and politics shape our world. Booking for all Festival events will open on Monday 13 May.
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2024-06-10 13:00 2024-06-10 13:00 Europe/London The Ministry for the future: navigating the politics of the climate crisis | LSE Festival Award-winning science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will discuss the political economy needed to cope with the existential threats we are facing and how he has explored this in his writing https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2024/06/10/the-ministry-for-the-future-navigating-the-politics-of-the-climate-crisis-lse-festival-382723 LSE - London School of Economics and Political Science,Houghton Street, London,London,LondonLocation
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