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From Policy Making to Planetary Survival: ChartingSpeculativePathways to Combat Climate Crisis in KimStanleyRobinson’sTheMinistry for the Future

Abstract

Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future (2020) is a deeply speculative fiction that reimagines climatepoliciestomitigate escalating environmental crisis and climate change. The focus of this paper is to analyse the implementationof radicalpolicyinterventions such as-the carbon coin and large-scale geoengineering as strategies to help mitigate climate crisis analysedthroughtheframework of United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) particularly SDG 13(Climate Action), SDG10(ReducedInequalities) and SDG 17 (partnership for the Goals). Robinson’s narrative envisions a fictional UN-convened ministrytaskedtocombatplanetary-scale issues like global warming, deforestation, carbon emission and restoration of natural. The novel conceptualizestheplanetas a global village which advocates equality for all beings - both humans and non-humans. Drawing on the theories of environmentalcriticism, climate governance and environmental economics this paper explores how speculative fiction can act a blueprint for radicalandplausible climate reforms. The novels employment of carbon coin and geoengineering strategies to reconstruct a dyingplanet offersanalternative framework that challenges market – driven economic stagnation. Hence, the novel The Ministry for the Future not onlyactsasa literary parameter to analyse climate crisis but also serves as a literary tool to reimagine and reinterpret SDGs inaneraofenvironmental degradation.

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