{"id":21628,"date":"2025-10-20T13:50:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=21628"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:50:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:50:48","slug":"a-lovely-story-pan-humanism-hope-and-pragmatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2025\/10\/20\/a-lovely-story-pan-humanism-hope-and-pragmatics\/","title":{"rendered":"A lovely story: \u201cPan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I\u2019m reading a Year\u2019s Best anthology, and just read and loved a 12,000-word story called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/clarkesworldmagazine.com\/barber-saab_09_17\/\">Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics<\/a>,\u201d by Jess Barber and Sara Saab, published in Clarkesworld in 2017.<\/p>\r\n<p>I found it a gorgeous depiction of a complicated relationship, and a gorgeous depiction of people working on healing an environmentally broken world. It made me cry, in a good way.<\/p>\r\n<p>I\u2019ve been liking quite a bit of the solarpunk that I\u2019ve read in the past couple of years. As with a lot of other solarpunk, this story doesn\u2019t try to address all of the world\u2019s problems; its focus is on environmental issues, and it portrays a future world that\u2019s implausibly unified in its general agreement about what the world should be and how to get there. As with a lot of other solarpunk, it\u2019s aspirational and hopeful, which may not be what a lot of you are looking for right now; and of course everyone has different tastes. So I\u2019m not saying everyone would like this.<\/p>\r\n<p>But I tend to feel that we need both aspirational fiction that shows how the world could be, and realistic fiction that shows how the world is. And at this particular moment, this particular story worked really well for me.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-improving-society","category-short-stories","category-speculative-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21629,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21628\/revisions\/21629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}