Designing a Just Climate Future

From there, Robinson turned to the power of fiction, especially science fiction and the novel. Human beings, he suggested, are natural storytellers who constantly imagine the future in utopian and dystopian terms. Indeed, he explained that “we are utopian science fiction writers thinking of our own futures at a different part of the day or a different part of your life. The capability, the act of being a science fiction writer is innate and natural. It's part of being human. It's the way that we think.”

For Robinson, novels matter because they allow readers to experience both "telepathy" - access to another person's thoughts - and "time travel" - entry into other worlds, histories and possible futures. Reading becomes an act of co-creation, expanding empathy and helping people imagine change.

That imaginative capacity is especially important in the face of climate anxiety. Robinson defended the value of utopian fiction not as naive idealism, but as a serious literary and political tool. A credible positive future, he argued, can help people see that progress is possible without relying on miracles. His own novel, The Ministry for the Future, which imagines a UN body working to defend future generations, reflects that conviction.

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