In Conversation with Rob Wolf on the New Books Network Podcast January 15, 2021 The Ministry for the Future is a sweeping novel about climate change and how people in the near future start to slow, stop, and reverse it. The story opens with a devastating heat wave that kills thousands in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. From there, Kim Stanley Robinson pulls back to show us the world’s reaction, taking readers from the eponymous Ministry for the Future (which advocates for new laws and policies, like carbon quantitative easing) to scientists in Antarctica, where glaciologists pump out water from under glaciers to slow their slide into the ocean.