Mapping the Contours of the Future: An Ecosophical Explication of the Elements of Good and Bad Anthropocene in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future

Abstract

The study attempts to analyse Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future (2020) in order to show
how carefully detailing the elements of good and bad Anthropocene from an ecosophical perspective
can inspire us to connect human and nature in a most harmonious manner. The study attempts to show
from a multi-theoretical perspective how the author seems to equate the evils of ecological exploitation
of nature and economic exploitation of the poor and the hapless and proposes for the need of adopting
an alternative financial, political, and social system where man and nature will be seen as parts of a
singular, gigantic, planetary family. The study will analyse how the novel describes the bad Anthropocene
to be both caused by and in turn causing an inequality regime to operate and thrive while a desirable
future within the Anthropocene can emerge if we adopt an ecosophical and ecocentric outlook.