Action on climate

At a time when the window is closing on our ability to stop our rush to the tipping point on climate change, I thought it would be timely to remind you of one of the great prescient science fiction writers who described a world where people had taken to living underground because the surface no longer supported their lives.

Here is the link to the E.M. Forster short story, The Machine Stops. I read it when I was a kid and it has stuck with me all these years.

Here is the Wikipedia summary posted on the site where you can get a free download:

The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own. Those who do not accept the deity of the Machine are viewed as 'unmechanical' and are threatened with "Homelessness". Eventually, the Machine apocalyptically collapses, and the civilization of the Machine comes to an end. --Wikipedia