Mapping Out a Life in a Newer, Stranger Future
Even the recent past is receding at a scary rate
There’s no one not talking about the weather this summer. It’s in our faces daily, when we go outside and smell smoke from distant fires or try to live in unimaginable temperatures day after day. But this article is not another endless litany of warnings and observations of the effects of climate change.
I’ve written plenty of those and probably will continue to do so if I think they have value to add. But I’ve been thinking about life right now, day to day, and how we have to adapt to conditions most of us have never experienced.
The reality of the world today is not going away, not in anyone who lives in this lifetime. This is hard to accept for many, especially my generation, the late boomers, even though it has been obvious that this was coming for years. It just didn’t seem real. But that’s the older folks. There is an interesting opinion piece in the Washington Post today that breaks down the rapid growth of generation Z, those born after the mid-nineties.
In it, authors Celinda Lake and Mac Heller walk us through the demographics of the last four years as this generation enters voting age and my gen dies off (not being morbid, it’s normal). They are focused on the political effects as these young…
