IoES 2024-2025 Focus on Environment and Sustainability Series: “Optimism, Optopia, and Climate Change Stories,” with Kim Stanley Robinson
HYBRID: Online and Optimist Room, UCLA Luskin Conference Center 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesKim Stanley Robinson Author of Ministry for the Future How can science fiction balance hopeful stories about environmental futures with current realities? What theory of social change should inform these stories? With dire climate change impacts already happening, what kinds of stories can inspire audiences to care about and become active on large-scale environmental issues?...