New Atwood
Oct. 6th, 2011 01:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Reasons to be happy: Margaret Atwood has a new book out and it's a collection of essays, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
Reasons to be sad: this last bit from an interview with Jascha Hoffman:
Reasons to be sad: this last bit from an interview with Jascha Hoffman:
I’m past the age when things scare me. But if I were younger, I would be looking down the line with some apprehension. A world with more than 9 billion people is not going to be very habitable. We’ve already used 90% of the fish in the sea. Global warming will make it worse: more droughts, more extreme weather and limited harvests. People think they will fix the problem with technology, but famine may fix it for us. Either way it will be a pretty miserable life. The infinite inventiveness of humans sometimes makes me feel hopeful, but we’re just as capable of inventing horrible things as good things.
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Date: 2011-10-06 01:42 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-10-06 11:20 pm (UTC)For all it's worth, you are all invited to hole up here in my brasilian farm and start a commune with me!
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Date: 2011-10-06 02:27 am (UTC)Civilizations have risen and fallen before, it would be unwise to assume that same wouldn't happen again.
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Date: 2011-10-06 11:21 pm (UTC)