I have been looking for evidence of how people respond (will respond) to series of climate change impacts. I came across the following just minutes after I s decided to start searching and just happened to pick up
Tan Twan Eng's novel The House of Doors
It called to mind a story I had once heard: a pair of explorers, husband and wife, I got lost during an expedition across the Gobi desert, to hide their growing despair and feeling of hopelessness as they wandered deeper and deeper into the desert, they stopped all talking to each other.
Of course, you have to be ready but it works.
Then I looked at the back and found this -
A tremendous feat of literary imagination. Highly evocative, richly observed, and entirely convincing.
William Boyd.
So the possibility, as climate gets closer, is that we just stop talking
Will our responses to climate change impacts be really meaningful in the face of the sudden evolution of heretofore-trapped methane locked away in the Siberian permafrost?
I am really concerned that we are more worried about the lifting of the volcanic dome in Yellowstone National Park and the release of a thermal event the likes of which contemporaneous humans have never seen, or experienced, against the life-ending increase of methane into the atmosphere from Russia.
Where do we draw the line?