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Reindeer at the End of the World – Bathsheba Demuth

Emergence Magazine Podcast

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The Fox and the Future

In a few weeks, scientists will give the world 12 years to reduce carbon emissions or risk-warming headlined as climate apocalypse. I want to know where does it come from, this narrative of absolute end, and what meaning slinks in with the proclamation of apocalypse. Others of historical training mean I cannot see the arc of such stories as neutral. They shape the borders of our minds and of our policies. The terms of her future, Alex's future, my future, and the future of this place are given so often now as prophecies of rupture.

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