[alangibson]

> people galvanized around it kind of like 9/11

Be careful what you wish for. 9/11 galvanized Americans to start two disastrous wars. The effect of a mass fatality event like in MFTF could easily be a bunch of pointless, ineffective wars. There's precedent for that, but not for anything like a Ministry for the Future

[squeaky-clean]

Haven't read the book (I'm interested now), but you could maybe look at it as a war against climate change.