https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/01/climate-change-environment-hope-future-optimism-success

Rebecca Solnit

The Green New Deal, formerly seen as radical, is now in mainstream debate. And renewable energy becomes more efficient every day

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That we are living in science fiction was brought home to me last week when I put down Kim Stanley Robinson’s superb climate-futures novel The Ministry for the Future and picked up Bill McKibben’sNew Yorker letteron climate, warning of the melting of the Thwaites Glacier, “alreadyknownas the ‘doomsday glacier’ because its collapse could raise global sea levels by as much as three feet”. Where we are now would have seemed like science fiction itself 20 years ago; where we need to be will take us deeper into that territory.

Three things matter for climate chaos and our response to it – the science reporting on…