Girl in Ice

by Erica Ferencik

The word in Inuktun for climate change translates to “a friend acting strangely”—what a personal and beautiful way of describing a relationship to the natural world.

“You want to know the real reason it’s hopeless?” “Sure.” “Because even if we got rid of fossil fuels tomorrow, which we won’t, fix everything that’s broken, which we can’t, the problem is, no one can fix human nature. We’re greedy, selfish, stupid, so, so fucking stupid, and shortsighted by nature. And that’s what’s going to kill us all. Hopefully.”

Icebergs are like people, you only ever really know twenty percent of them.