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Imagining a Not So Grim Post-Apocalyptic Future with Writers Kim Stanley Robinson and Annalee Newitz

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KQED

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Confronting the reality of climate change is often a terrifying and paralyzing activity. But, in the right hands, the story of our warming planet can be a tale of human ingenuity, resilience, and adaptability. Humans, for better or worse, find ways to adapt to almost anything, even the collapse of civilizations. Forum brings together two legendary local science fiction writers, Kim Stanley Robinson and Annalee Newitz, to get their incisive perspectives on the question of the long-term fate of humanity. We’ll talk about the future of the climate, past civilizations of the earth and the audacity of imagining that human beings might find ways to thrive later this century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Support for Forum comes from Broadway S.F. presenting Parade, the musical revival based on a

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true story. From three-time Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown comes the story of Leo and

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Lucille Frank, a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in Georgia. When Leo is accused

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of an unspeakable crime, it propels them into an unimaginable test of faith, humanity, justice,

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and devotion.

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The riveting and gloriously hopeful parade plays the Orphium Theater for three weeks only, May 20th through June 8th.

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1:09.5

From KQED. From KQED. From KQED, public radio in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

1:25.8

Today on forum, confronting the reality of climate change

1:28.8

is often a terrifying and paralyzing activity. But in the right hands, the story of our warming planet

1:35.0

can be a tale of human ingenuity, resilience, and adaptability. Humans, for better or worse,

1:40.9

find ways to adapt to almost anything, even the collapse of civilizations.

1:45.9

Forum brings together two legendary science fiction writers, Kim Stanley Robinson and Annalie Newitz

1:51.4

to get their perspectives on the question of the long-term fate of humanity. That's next on

1:56.3

Forum right after the news.

2:14.5

From KQED Public Radio and San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

2:18.6

Today on forum, we're talking humanity's future, the long arc.

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