just keep you Fridge stocked and continue with your cable payments...we are gonna take care of you....says the Government.
Did you ever read Fallen Angels? It’s a three author book, one of whom is Larry Niven. Another ice Age is hitting Earth, but the Greens have taken over the governments and they hate technology. People still live on defunded space stations, They can produce most of what they need, but need nitrogen for their air mixture. Two pilots try scooping oxygen in a ramship from the atmosphere, but they get shot down. It’s up to a group of Ellison-esque techniphiles to save them from the glacier and get them back into space.
Basically, what if the patients DO mange to take over the asylum just as it’s about to implode?
For having three authors, it’s a decently written book but in bad need of editing, but since I’m reading it right now, I have to say that the parallels to today’s headlines, like NM and their state of emergency, are downright skincrawlingly CREEPY.