by Devac

From a related blog post

This time, though, I’m not so much an expert as a foil. Dan Brooks (a name long-time readers of this blog may recognize) and Sal Agosta (whose concept of “sloppy fitness” careful readers of my novelette “The Island” may recognize) have written a book called A Darwinian Survival Guide: Hope for the Twenty-First Century. Their definition of “hope” is significantly more restrained than the tech bros and hopepunk authors would like: not once do they suggest, for example, that we could all keep our superyachts if we just put a giant translucent pie plate into space to cut incident sunlight by a few percent. Brooks & Agosta’s definition of hope is far more appropriate for a world in which leading climate scientists admit to fury and despair at political inaction, decry living in an “age of fools”, and predict by a nearly five-to-one margin that not only is 1.5ºC a pipe dream, but that we’ll be blowing past 2.5ºC by century’s end. They’ve internalized the growing number of studies which point to global societal collapse around midcentury. Their idea of hope is taken explicitly from Asimov’s Foundation series: not How do we prevent collapse, but How do we come back afterward? That’s what their book is about.

I'm looking forward to reading this book.