[dmans0n]

In the book, the Indian government takes unilateral action to cool the planet (spraying reflectants into the upper atmosphere, iirc) after the heat wave kills 20 million Indian people in the space of a few days - a few weeks. Given the fractious state of international politics and the urgency of the problem, this seems like a fairly realistic depiction of how efforts to cool the planet might commence IRL.

[allemagne]

There was about paragraph or so spent on that realistic response, and then huge swathes dedicated to India switching to collectivized farming (a la early Soviet Union), the world's central banks putting carbon offsets onto a blockchain, and millions of Americans willingly displacing themselves to create a giant wildlife preserve in the midwest.

[ch4s3]

KSR is sliding in the direction of outright promotion of eco-fascism and I can't say it makes for good literature.

[hoseja]

I've definitively soured on him after that dolphin chapter.

[ch4s3]

I can't find that part now, but there's plenty of really rotten stuff in the book.

[alangibson]

> millions of Americans willingly displacing themselves

As far fetched as any science fiction ever written