59 mins watch time
Posted February 2022
Climate Science, Technology
He coined the word ‘Metaverse’, advised Jeff Bezos’s spaceflight company Blue Origin, and imagined the birth of cryptocurrency back in 1999. Now legendary speculative fiction author Neal Stevenson turns his attention to the climate crisis. His sweeping, prescient new novel Termination Shock transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics.
