> He may have gotten to this point before me; let me know. The book’s 900 pages long on my e-reader—it’ll take me a while to get through.
I remember Termination Shock being more about geopolitical termination shock from the sudden termination of climate change. There aren't really adaptive vested interests like you talk about here, just unequal geopolitical impacts on the climate from the SRM. Stephenson's point is also that things like UN directives and long term plans from the big players don't necessarily rule out geoengineering since SRM is cheap enough to be done by a small, rogue actor with narrow regional interests (who might not care that it hasn't been studied extensively before deployment).
This reminds me more of a dark side version of Ministry for the Future, which was all about ways to leverage vested interests, financial systems etc. to drive mitigation changes. I think this kind of "adaptation industry" was one of the blind spots of that book.
Anyway, looking forward to the book. I read Ministry back-to-back with Termination Shock and I remember thinking halfway through that I'd love to read a Karl Schroeder take on this type of novel.
> He may have gotten to this point before me; let me know. The book’s 900 pages long on my e-reader—it’ll take me a while to get through.
I remember Termination Shock being more about geopolitical termination shock from the sudden termination of climate change. There aren't really adaptive vested interests like you talk about here, just unequal geopolitical impacts on the climate from the SRM. Stephenson's point is also that things like UN directives and long term plans from the big players don't necessarily rule out geoengineering since SRM is cheap enough to be done by a small, rogue actor with narrow regional interests (who might not care that it hasn't been studied extensively before deployment).
This reminds me more of a dark side version of Ministry for the Future, which was all about ways to leverage vested interests, financial systems etc. to drive mitigation changes. I think this kind of "adaptation industry" was one of the blind spots of that book.
Anyway, looking forward to the book. I read Ministry back-to-back with Termination Shock and I remember thinking halfway through that I'd love to read a Karl Schroeder take on this type of novel.