![]() ![]() As is so often the case in so many catastrophes, for many low-income communities of color, the future is, in many ways, already here. That was, I know, a different kind of denial steeped in relative privilege. I have never been in the least bit skeptical of climate change, yet even just a few years ago, I could go a day or two without thinking about it beyond the brief moments when I dropped a plastic bottle or a flattened carboard box into a recycling bin. ![]() A paper released by an Australian think tank laid out future scenarios, based on scientific research about climate change, that include massive displacement, cities abandoned, and devastating food shortages by 2050 should leaders fail reduce the degree of warming by 2030. In July, Alaska experienced record-high heat of 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Ten, twenty, one hundred times a day, I think about the end times. ![]()
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