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Aug. 4th, 2019 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotesseEmotively, I think part of why climate change is hitting me hard hard right now has to do with the warming in the Arctic.
I feel safe, secure, in long cold seasons. I've always dreamed about going further north, surrendering to the deep dark of real, real winter. I grouse when it's wintertime, but I do love it, and haven't much interest in living somewhere that's temperate year round. How do you know you're alive without a good sharp winter to remind you of your place in things?
And now it's the north where we're seeing the most dramatic impacts from anthropogenic climate change: the arboreal forests burning, the glaciers receding, the permafrost collapsing.
Somehow I've always believed that if I needed to, I could always escape to winter, away up at the top of the world where it would inevitably be waiting for me.
it does something twisty in my heart when I see that ice being released by the heat into its liquid state, the water rushing out and away. It's an intensely selfish feeling, I know; the equatorial regions of the world, and the global south, are most threatened. That's where climate change has the most potential to harm human lives. Whole countries vanishing beneath the rising sea; and where do the refugees go? Me, I'm stuck like a burr to the Great Lakes, in the hope that maybe it will be safe here for a while.
It's hard to know how much the looking head-on at climate change is a self-harm-by-information thing. It hurts to see, and it leaves me very pessimistic and hard-mouthed about my own prospects in the remainder of my life.
I feel safe, secure, in long cold seasons. I've always dreamed about going further north, surrendering to the deep dark of real, real winter. I grouse when it's wintertime, but I do love it, and haven't much interest in living somewhere that's temperate year round. How do you know you're alive without a good sharp winter to remind you of your place in things?
And now it's the north where we're seeing the most dramatic impacts from anthropogenic climate change: the arboreal forests burning, the glaciers receding, the permafrost collapsing.
Somehow I've always believed that if I needed to, I could always escape to winter, away up at the top of the world where it would inevitably be waiting for me.
it does something twisty in my heart when I see that ice being released by the heat into its liquid state, the water rushing out and away. It's an intensely selfish feeling, I know; the equatorial regions of the world, and the global south, are most threatened. That's where climate change has the most potential to harm human lives. Whole countries vanishing beneath the rising sea; and where do the refugees go? Me, I'm stuck like a burr to the Great Lakes, in the hope that maybe it will be safe here for a while.
It's hard to know how much the looking head-on at climate change is a self-harm-by-information thing. It hurts to see, and it leaves me very pessimistic and hard-mouthed about my own prospects in the remainder of my life.
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Date: 2019-08-06 04:02 am (UTC)