Message in the first chapter: it takes a really bad,, dramatic event to get people’s attention. The most appealing idea: the creation of a digital currency structured to encourage investment in a solution to the problem, and scaleable both up to efforts on a global scale and down to the village or personal level. The book is a number of things: a work of fiction, an essay that explores the moral dimentions of humanity’s status as an invasive species, and history and science explaining how we got here and the mechanisms driving driving us toward the abyss. The book is somewhat fragmented, given what it is attempting, so plot and character development suffer a bit, but overall it is a worthwhile read. People get plenty of doom and gloom in the news. Without hope they retreat into denial and inaction. The Ministry For The Future tips the scale toward hope.