Le site SFsignal a demandé à des auteurs leur scénario optimiste pour le futur. 

David Brin a répondu. 

I portray precisely this tradeoff in three of my novels. In The Postman, wrong choices were made and civilization fell. The Earth barely skates along disaster but, since the human population plummeted, the planet recovers. And so does civilization, with a little help from its friends. In EARTH, the tradeoffs are more explicit. In a complex plot filled with speculative science, two women typify the choice between two models for environmentalism, a radical kind that views humanity itself as the enemy, and another that hopes we’ll become wise planetary managers for our own sakes, maturing to become the “brains” and eyes and hands of a new kind of life, taking its place in the Galaxy. 

My latest novel, EXISTENCE, goes into the dozens of choices we can make in our near future, whether to safeguard humanity by forging ahead into scientific discoveries at breakneck speed? Or to go the other way, stifling research in order to plunge into retro-nostalgia… and so many other decisions. I try to give good voices to all sides, amid a rollicking adventure! But it turns out a whole lot more than the destiny of one little planet may be at stake.