5×15 at COP26 – Arts and the Imagination Hosted by Brian EnoJust as we need climate scientists to present the facts, we need the arts and culture to help us think and feel and talk about the climate crisis at all levels. The conversation needs scientists – but it urgently needs artists too. Science discovers, […]

Paris Peace Forum 4th editionEngineered climate: The needed governance of Solar Radiation Modification  Saturday 13 november 2021 15:30 – 16:30 Solar Radiation Modification (SRM), a technology still untested but within human reach, consists of increasing the reflection of incoming sunlight back to space to lower the earth’s temperature. By doing so, SRM could help reduce […]

Harvard Divinity School: Weather ReportsMonday, November 22, 2021, 7:00pm to 8:30pm Kim Stanley Robinson, novelist, will present “The Climate of the Future.” Kim Stanley Robinson’s thriller The Ministry for the Future (2020) is science fiction that reads as hard-edged journalism. With short chapters and a myriad of characters, Robinson creates a kaleidoscope of perspectives on a global climate collapse coming […]

University of Sydney / Progress in Political Economy14th Annual Wheelwright Lecture: Kim Stanley Robinson Hosted by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, together with the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) and the Political Economy Student Society (ECOPSoc). Dodging a Mass Extinction Event: Climate Change and Necessity  Speaker: Kim Stanley Robinson When: 25 […]