Frangipani's review of Sixty Days and Counting
Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson
Frangipani's review
rating:
bookshelves:
scifi
recommended for:
KSR fans, sci fi futurists, climate change junkies
status:
Read in June, 2007
Aaah, finally the last of the trilogy. It comforts me to know that there are some people in the world with fantastic ideas about what we can do to fix all the damage we humans have been inflicting on the planet. Although this book lacks any of the spectacular climatic apocalypses of the previous two, it sets about tieing things up. Phil Chase the amazing, but unfortunately mythical politician, has been elected President of the USA and is going hammer and tongs on righting wrongs, both climate, energy, policy, monetary and (gasp) weapons. The book ends nicely with some happy events for the characters. But what is very striking to observe is that everywhere on this Earth where good standards of justice prevail, the rate of [human:] reproduction is about at the replacement rate. While wherever justice, and the full array of rights as described in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, is somehow denied to some portion of the population, especially to women and children, the rate of reproduction either balloons to unsustainably rapid growth rates, or crashes outright". President Phil Chase Inauguration Speech....more
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