This is a LONG thread composed of screenshots of the entire first chapter of Kim Stanley Robinson's novel *The Ministry for the Future*.

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"It was getting hotter."

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"Here there was no escaping it."

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"All over town the stressed hum of windowbox air conditioner fans buzzed like giant mosquitos."

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"Wails of dismay cut the air, coming from the rooftop across the street. Cries of distress, young women leaning over the wall calling down to the street. Someone on that roof was not waking up."

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"Then the sound of the air conditioners cut off. More cries of distress."

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"The air, already bad, would soon be a blanket of exhaust."

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"We need to go get help, the whole district has lost power, we have to tell them in Lucknow. We have to get doctors here."

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"For now, take the old ones and the little ones into rooms with air conditioning. The schools would have A/C, the government house. Go to those places. Follow the sound of generators."

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"For now, get to the school. Get inside, find some A/C somewhere. Get the old ones and the little ones out of this. But there’s nowhere! Then it came to him. 'Go to the lake! Get in the water!'"

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"Frank walked down streets toward the lake...Metal surfaces in the sun burned to the touch, he could see heat waves bouncing over them like air over a barbeque."

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"He went to the curving concrete road that bordered the lake on this side, crouched and stuck his arm in up to the elbow. It was indeed as warm as a bath, or almost. He kept his arm in, trying to decide if the water was cooler or hotter than his body."

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"It was an open question how many of the townspeople could fit in the lake. Not enough. It was said the town’s population was two hundred thousand."

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"He went back to the compound, into the clinic on the ground floor. Up to his room on the next floor, huffing and puffing. It would be easiest to lie there and wait it out."

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"He checked the particulate meter on the wall: 1300 ppm. This for fine particulates, 25 nanometers and smaller."

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"He tried to fill the generator’s gas tank and found it was already full. He put the can of gas back in the closet, took the generator to the corner of the room where the window with the air conditioner was. The windowbox A/C had a short cord."

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"But it...wouldn’t do to run the generator out on the street below the window; it would surely be snatched. People were desperate."

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Buy this book for everyone you know. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316300131

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And, please, do everything you can to end the fossil fuel era.

For we are in danger.

And we are out of time.

#EndClimateSilence

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