THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE
Kim Stanley Robinson's' latest Cli-fi Novel-inspired Yeah!ffirmation by Adam Powers
This is a cross-post from my other poetry blog of random rhyming affirmation: yeah!ffirmations, which you can subscribe to separately here.
THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE
Written about Kim Stanley Robinson’s Novel: The Ministry for the Future
I am THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE
Together a collective protection
I am a series of systems for users
In the future, a platform for everyone
I hear climate victims of systemic abuse
I smell the fuel source still driving our pain
I see ways to multi-solve it all if we just choose
I feel we can all try for each our domains
I am robust and resilient
And we need that by design
Even if they are in general inefficient
We are robust and resiliently aligned
I am leading an intergovernmental
Agency on emergent climate action
I am existential and environmental
Using state power to align global factions
LIke I am carbon coin
World saving currency
From the Paris Agreement rejoined
To carbon quantitative easing
To prevent the world from overheating
I am the tragedy of the time horizon
We’re organizing trying towards everything
Repaying future debt on rates of returns rising
I am Ideology, noun
I am an imaginary relationship to a real situation
Unlike human-wildlife biome ecology found
Which actually requires our fixation
I am at this
No matter what’s happened before
I am powered by the present
Turning living levers to open a new door
I am living in a 2,000 Watt (48 kWhs) society
Match-minding electricity usage to a limit each day
Striving, thriving, giving more stylish variety
More meaningful undertaking a new living way
I am what we have to try for
So something like justice will get created
Setting up success for the future
Bending the arc and all that, belated
I am fighting the dead hand of the past
Clutching us by way of the living
People too frightened and aghast
To accept change by more than fuck-giving
I am serious, with no messing around- fuck!
There’s no time to waste deluded in solitude
I am past certain a worse reality has struck
So the best Plan B will emerge from the multitudes.