How certain types of science fiction resonate with a wide audience and enrich human rights ideas and practices. At first glance, human rights have nothing to do with science fiction novels. Reports, campaigns and minutes address the highly realistic world of war and authoritarianism, social inequality, polarization technology, ecosystem collapse and other existing human rights issues. Therefore, fiction and many other science fiction films are often seen as a pursuit of leisure driven by reading and film at night and on weekends.
I counted myself among those who were indifferent to science fiction novels. It was in front of Laskim Stanley Robinson's novel "Ministry of Future". The future 2020 novels of the climate change are paying attention immediately. While calling the most important book of 2021, other scenarios, risks and solutions are discussed for rich scenarios, risks and solutions to plan over the next 30 years. In addition to the applause, I think this novel is essential to announce the future of human rights to a shiny planet. The Robinson offers valuable clues in the current interview. Which science fiction uses De Propia? "Think of the glasses you wear when watching a 3D movie." This particular pair of glasses has one lens and the other shows what. And your brain puts this together in a 3D view. The lens of such a science fiction novel is a true attempt to imagine a possible future. Another lens is a metaphor for the current situation.
This book makes good use of this dual perspective. It's almost starting now, and there's a bitter scene of a very humid heat wave that will kill 20 million people in India in 2025. And it will end near 2050, when humanity will eventually succeed in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The chapter oscillates between the short and medium term, keeping pace with the waterfalls that people and planets suffer during this period. Fires, droughts, hurricanes, massive migration, polar thaw, and economic crises are protected from emission cuts, peaceful and violent new environmental movements, and new world currencies that reward vulnerable people. Species and successful and unsuccessful geoengineering projects alternate with unprecedented actions against global warming, down to the corridors of mysterious ecosystems.
There is the utility of science fiction there. In the field of human rights, I think there are three basic contributions. The first is to act as an antidote to pessimism and despair. When the future looks more uncertain than ever, democracy, peace, and the future of the planet itself need stories that help us imagine and predict other possible scenarios. Human rights issues have doubled, and it is difficult to get out of the crossroads of the present, so we must find a way to a creative and credible vision of the rich reading of the present and the possibilities of the future.
The second advantage of this kind of science fiction is the resurrection of the utopian human rights vocation. Given the clear evidence of many human inequalities, human rights propose a moral perspective that all humans have equal dignity and equal rights. As Amartya Sen wrote, rights essentially consist of this moral vision, and defending rights means swimming against the flow of facts. Therefore, by definition, they have utopian vocations, even counterfactual.
Today's credible scenarios are probably not as optimistic as once imagined. As Robinson said, being utopia today means "believing that we will prevent a catastrophic [climate] extinction event within the next 30 years." Despite authoritarian governments, conservative movements, and unruly corporate anti-rights projects, it is possible that human rights can make a decisive contribution to this and other jobs.
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