![]() These questions, and the implications of Robinson’s answers, are explored in the novel through the If people refuse to move as the intertidal zone encroaches, how will our economic tools resolve this tension? There is a looming tension between the intertidal zone - protected from ownership by international convention - and the places which humans have already claimed as property. The central economic question of the novel is how climate change will affect real estate. ![]() He offers a vision of the future in which there are catastrophes and significant problems, but a future in which there is also hope. In doing so, Robinson avoids the trap of despair that pervades many other novels about climate change. Most of all, though, author Kim Stanley Robinson tackles economic questions. ![]() These questions range from logistical architectural and engineering quandaries to sociopolitical tensions including the fate of climate migrants and evolving forms of communal governance. ![]()
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