I thought about the term “Arctic heat wave,” an absurdity that threatened to short-circuit thinking altogether. That there were wildfires in the Arctic Circle felt like the most important fact in the world. This was a thing we should never not be thinking about, talking about. But something about this truth, and the endless deluge of other more or less equally horrifying truths, made it almost impossible to assimilate. The subtext of every news headline now, of every push notification, was that we were completely and irrevocably fucked.
