Editing Kim Stanley Robinson (section)

===Climate change and global warming===
{{See|Climate fiction}}
Related to Robinson's focus on the environment are his themes of the imminent catastrophe of [[global warming]] and the need to limit [[greenhouse gas emissions]] in the present day. His 2012 novel ''[[2312 (novel)|2312]]'' explores the detrimental, [[long-term effects of climate change]], which include food shortages, global instability, [[Sixth Extinction|mass extinction]], and {{convert|7|m|ft|adj=on}} [[sea level rise]] that has drowned many major coastal cities.<ref name=Beauchamp/> The novel condemns the people of the period it calls "the Dithering", from 2005 to 2060, for failing to [[Climate change mitigation|address climate change]] and thereby causing mass suffering and death in the future.<ref name=Beauchamp/> Robinson and his work accuse global capitalism for the failure to address climate change.<ref name=Beauchamp /> In his 2017 novel ''[[New York 2140]]'' Robinson explores the themes of climate change and global warming, setting the novel in the year 2140 when the New York City he imagines is beset by a {{convert|50|ft|m|adj=on}} sea level rise that submerges half of the city.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/utopia-in-the-time-of-trump//|work=Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)|title=Utopia in the Time of Trump|last=Canavan|first= Gerry|year=2017 |access-date=March 11, 2017}}</ref> Climate change is also the focus of his ''Science in the Capital'' series<ref name=Beauchamp/> and his 2020 novel ''[[The Ministry for the Future]]''.