{"id":139176,"date":"2021-08-13T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T13:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=139176"},"modified":"2021-08-13T15:50:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T13:50:12","slug":"kim-stanley-robinson-remembering-climate-change-a-message-from-the-year-2071","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=139176","title":{"rendered":"Kim Stanley Robinson: Remembering climate change &#8230; a message from the year 2071"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-ted wp-block-embed-ted wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kim Stanley Robinson: Remembering climate change ... a message from the year 2071\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/kim_stanley_robinson_remembering_climate_change_a_message_from_the_year_2071\" sandbox=\"allow-popups allow-scripts allow-same-origin\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Coming to us from 50 years in the future, legendary sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson tells the &#8220;history&#8221; of how humanity ended the climate crisis and restored the damage done to Earth&#8217;s biosphere. 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