What kind of stories would we tell in the new world created by the climate crisis? I thought at once, Well, we’ll tell exactly the same kinds of stories we do now. Exactly the same kinds of stories we always have, through every apocalypse: the fall of Rome, the Black Death, Gilgamesh’s flood, the Warring States period, all of it, the many times and ways in which the world has ended. We’ll tell stories about being born and falling in love and fighting with our families and hoping for something better and dying, because that’s what humans do, and it won’t even take very long before that drowned
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