Forty Signs of Rain

Anthropocentric attitude, capitalist covetousess and materialistic proclivity can have eerie effects on the environment. The augmentation in global warming leads to the substantial abatement in the albedo effect leading to the thinning and thawing of the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets thereby changing the ocean currents, thermohalin circulation and resultant loss of aquatic biodiversity. If you want to visualize the vicissitudes of climate and humans’ un-altruistic adaptations to these anthropogenic changes by trampling down the Ecobuddhist dictums such as non-self, interdependence, interconnectedness, biophilic mutuality, egalitarianism, coevolution and compassion, loiter in the realm of the novel Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson