The Lost Cause

Resumen del libro

It s thirty years from now and we re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry people who can t let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn t controversial, it s just an overwhelming fact of life. But so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it.

Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster relief, the mitigation of floods and superstorms, has become a skill for which tens of millions of people are trained every year.

The effort is global. It employs everyone who wants to work. Even when national politics oscillates back to right-wing leaders, the momentum is too great; these vast programmes cannot be stopped in their tracks.

But there are still those Americans who cling to their red trucker caps, their grievances, their anger, their nostalgia for the golden age of assault rifles. Their alternative news sources reassure them their resentment is right and pure and climate change is a con. They re your grandfather, your uncle, your great-aunt.

They re not going anywhere. And they re armed to the teeth.

Biografía del autor

Novelista canadiense de ciencia ficción, periodista y activista tecnológico. Colabora con numerosas revistas, sitios web y periódicos. Es asesor especial de la Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), un grupo de libertades civiles sin ánimo de lucro que defiende la libertad en la legislación, la política, las normas y los tratados sobre tecnología. Sus novelas han sido traducidas a decenas de idiomas. Es doctor honoris causa en informática por la Open University (Reino Unido). En 2020 ingresó en el Salón de la Fama de la Ciencia Ficción y la Fantasía de Canadá. Ha ganado los premios Locus, Prometheus, Copper Cylinder, White Pine y Sunburst, y ha sido nominado a los premios Hugo, Nebula y British Science Fiction.