The Canadian Miracle

Read to me by [a:Cory Doctorow 12581 Cory Doctorow https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1595482071p2/12581.jpg].

Super short novelette - short story, even - from the same near future, cli-fi, solarpunk universe as The Lost Cause. This story dives into a brief expedition by some Blue Helmets (presumably climate emergency first responders deployed by the UN? Or maybe it's just Canada? ELBOWS UP, EH) as they try to help Oxford, Mississippi, recover from some (unnamed) climate disaster. As with the longer book, this is densely packed with political ideas, technological ideas (I liked the drones using computer vision/AI to find lost pets - since the training data had so many dog and cat images), and food (Cory is SO into writing food, lately!). It was fine, very short.