The Ministry for the Future

O čom je kniha The Ministry for the Future?

The book follows an international organization named the Ministry for the Future in its mission to advocate for the world's future generations of citizens as if their rights are as valid as the present generation's. Beginning in 2025, the organization, established as a subsidiary body under the Paris Agreement and based in Zurich, is led by protagonist Mary Murphy, a former foreign-minister of Ireland and a composite character of diplomats Mary Robinson, Christiana Figueres and Laurence Tubiana.[2] Climate change is established as a threat that compromises the safety and prosperity of the future. While the narrative includes chapters of nonfiction history and descriptions of events from the perspectives of other characters and objects, the plot follows Murphy as she seeks to convince central banks of the threats to currency and market stability posed by the effects of climate change. Specifically, a coordinated global round of quantitative easing through the issuance of an complementary currency, called the carbon coin with a high discounted rate to exchanged for carbon capture, is adopted. At the same time, in Antarctica, various countries cooperate in a geoengineering project to drill to the bottom of glaciers and pump meltwater up to slow basal sliding. (Založil/a: Petr Puďa Pudivítr)