Sometimes, when she returns stateside like this, Anna has the urge to grab people and shake them from their stupors. Do you not see what’s happening? Melting polar ice, deforestation, acidifying oceans, calving of glaciers, sea levels rising, epochal floods and storms, mass extinctions, ancient diseases released from the permafrost. It is a complete collapse of delicate environmental systems on every level and front. Not in some hazy future—now. Just watch the news: hurricane follows hurricane, coral reefs die, island nations slide into the sea. Anna has the urge to yell at the students, to
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