How Science Fiction Can Shape Our Reality — with Kim Stanley Robinson

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🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Science fiction can prepare us for the impending future, and empower us to shape it. Join us for a conversation with one of the greatest living science-fiction writers — Kim Stanley Robinson.

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0:00.0	Is Facebook destroying the lungs of the planet?
0:04.2	Okay, that might sound like a stretch, but let's back up for a second.
0:08.1	Brazil's president, Yeyir Bolsonaro, would likely not have been elected
0:12.4	if it hadn't been for Facebook and WhatsApp,
0:14.8	bombarding people with misinformation and incendiary news
0:18.2	prior to his election in 2018.
0:20.2	Let's rule, let's rule, let's rule, let's rule.
0:23.3	And since being elected, Bolsonaro has enacted policies
0:26.9	that are destroying the Amazon.
0:29.0	So it can no longer act as a carbon sink.
0:31.8	And this has had irreversible consequences
0:34.1	for how humanity navigates the threat of climate change.
0:37.0	Under Bolsonaro's tenure, the rainforest lost more trees
0:40.2	to deforestation this year than in any year since 2006.
0:45.0	So it's two hops from Facebook to Brazil's election
0:48.8	to policies that send the Amazon and our planet
0:51.7	towards irreversible tipping points.
0:54.4	How many engineers at Facebook or WhatsApp are thinking about that
0:58.0	when they make design decisions
0:59.3	about how their platforms spread viral information?
1:02.7	The climate crisis is so vast, how do we grasp it,
1:06.1	let alone take steps to address it?
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