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The lost cause / Cory Doctorow.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Tor Publishing Group, 2023Edition: First editionDescription: 358 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250865939
  • 125086593X
Other title:
  • Lost cause : a novel of truth and reconciliation in our polarized future
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "America, a generation from now. Brooks Palazzo is part of "the first generation not to fear the future." When his parents died in a recent epidemic, he moved in with his grandfather in Burbank, California, City of Progress. For Brooks and his generation, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great national and international efforts to mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. The effort is global, and it employs everyone who wants to work. Even when national politics oscillate back to leaders who oppose these programs, the momentum is too great -- these efforts can't be stopped, only slowed. Still, the old world isn't dead yet. In the wake of his grandfather's death, Brooks unearths a conspiracy of heavily-armed geriatric radicals -- bitter-enders who oppose everything Brooks's generation is trying to do. They're our grandfathers, our uncles, our neighbors. And they're not going anywhere. The Lost Cause asks the essential question of science fiction: Do things really have to be this way?" -- Jacket flap.
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It's thirty years from now. We're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can't let go?

For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster relief, the mitigation of floods and superstorms, has become a skill for which tens of millions of people are trained every year. The effort is global. It employs everyone who wants to work. Even when national politics oscillates back to right-wing leaders, the momentum is too great; these vast programs cannot be stopped in their tracks.

But there are still those Americans, mostly elderly, who cling to their red baseball caps, their grievances, their huge vehicles, their anger. To their "alternative" news sources that reassure them that their resentment is right and pure and that "climate change" is just a giant scam.

And they're your grandfather, your uncle, your great-aunt. And they're not going anywhere. And they're armed to the teeth.

The Lost Cause asks: What do we do about people who cling to the belief that their own children are the enemy? When, in fact, they're often the elders that we love?

"America, a generation from now. Brooks Palazzo is part of "the first generation not to fear the future." When his parents died in a recent epidemic, he moved in with his grandfather in Burbank, California, City of Progress. For Brooks and his generation, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great national and international efforts to mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. The effort is global, and it employs everyone who wants to work. Even when national politics oscillate back to leaders who oppose these programs, the momentum is too great -- these efforts can't be stopped, only slowed. Still, the old world isn't dead yet. In the wake of his grandfather's death, Brooks unearths a conspiracy of heavily-armed geriatric radicals -- bitter-enders who oppose everything Brooks's generation is trying to do. They're our grandfathers, our uncles, our neighbors. And they're not going anywhere. The Lost Cause asks the essential question of science fiction: Do things really have to be this way?" -- Jacket flap.

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