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PufPuf23

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3. The problem is human footprint and culture lead to a dystopian future for humanity.

Reply to cbabe (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 06:14 PM

Aug 21

Not convinced that there is a technological fix nor the capability of the human species to turn back time or technology to the result without severe calamity.

Always Coming Home (or Callenbach's Ecotopia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopia) is feasible without a great reduction in human population and ego to re-set humanity's relation with the environment.

Another novelization of a new way of living is George Stewart's Earth Abides. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abides Like Le Guin's father, the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, George Stewart was a professor (of English) at Cal (UC Berkeley).

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Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels [View all] cbabe Aug 16 OP

Ursula K. Le Guin's "Always Coming Home" depicts a stable post-apocalypse world. hunter Aug 16 #1

True. It's the 'how to get there' that's the challenge. cbabe Aug 16 #2

The problem is human footprint and culture lead to a dystopian future for humanity. PufPuf23 Aug 21 #3