Meh.
Climate change is unimaginably important. This book agrees. But the author decides to wish away the problems rather than suggest feasible solutions.
Magically we have renewable resources (solar is mentioned multiple times) which seems to have no draw backs because we’ve upped efficiency, dropped cost, and solved storage issues without effort.
Crypto currency is the solution to almost all social ills the author seems to suggest. And we just need some small group of people (every central bank worth its name) to agree to doing something against the law and only arguably within the realm of possible.
Magic weapons get developed out of thin air by people without assets to attack those with assets, while remaining completely anonymous despite a required massive industrial base…. The targets of these attacks choose not to use the same technology to defend themselves.
Not a single question is raised that doesn’t have a solution waiting in the room.
Some strange live interests get tacked on in places along with a running dialog with a mad criminal as the source/impetuous for the change that needs to happen…. He dies without ever getting any credit. This is all there, apparently, to make this a novel instead of an in actionable manifesto calling for violence against anyone who has “more” than you.
So, the proposed solution is magic improvement in technology, a willingness to use bio weapons on the entire world, an ability to monitor everyone and what they are doing, and a mad man’s confidence that YOU know better and what is RIGHT for now and all time. Oh, and yeah, everyone is just cool with becoming communist now with a vague veneer of money to hopefully keep people working and developing…. Because even with all this, the author can’t imagine the solutions lasting more than a hundred years…