ok even as somebody who would be predisposed to liking this book (as a student of bureacracies, etc) this was a trash fire

• no understanding of politics LMAO
• several weird fake mystical chapters about geology
• despite being 500 pages the fucking plot barely moves nad the both a murder and a romance are tacked on at the end. The murder, of course, is russian.
• basically fucking red mars but for climate change, the heads of the worlds governments basically don't change from 2020-2050ish

also, goddamn blockchain is used as a solution for money laundering, lmao.