Thread by @emilyraboteau

At last night’s New Year’s Eve Party, Nim said that when he used to visit family in Israel, he could see the Dead Sea from the side of road, but on his most recent trip, it was a lengthy walk to reach the water, which is evaporating.

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Chris responded, that the beaches are eroding in her native Jamaica, most egregiously where the resorts have raked away the seaweed to beautify the shore for tourists.

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One of the most effective ways to combat climate change is to talk about it, with regularity and urgency. This is my New Year’s resolution. Where are you feeling the effects of climate change in your habitat?
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After losing her home in Staten Island to Hurricane Sandy, Lisette bought an RV with solar panels and has been living off the grid, conscious of how much water it takes to flush her toilet, and take a shower.

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While evacuating Key West before Hurricane Irma with her dog and her husband, Freya realized she had everything she needed right there in her car, and shortly after, decided to migrate to Oregon, leaving her old life behind.
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At tonight's dinner party, Marguerite said that in Trinidad, where they find a way to joke about everything, including coups, people aren't laughing about the flooding.
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Jessy replied that it's been a warm winter in Michigan, where he lives a stone's throw from the lake.
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On tonight’s sunset cruise aboard the Argo, the yacht Walter built, he disclosed with enthusiasm that we could extract 5 terrawatts of renewable energy from the Gulf Stream via underwater turbines — enough to power the entire east coast.
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Moreover, he predicted with the confidence of a Swiss watch, no intelligent businessman will invest another dime in coal when there is more profit to be made in wind, solar, and hydrokinetic energy. “Economic forces will dictate a turnaround in the next 10 years.”

In northern Minnesota, where Mat lives, the Moose population is down, while Lyme bearing tics and hay fever are up, he said at tonight's cocktail reception.
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After Hurricane Irma wrecked her home in Key West, Kristina, a triathlete librarian, moved onto a boat and published a dystopian novel titled “Knowing When to Leave,” I learned over lobster tail.

Over vegetable quiche at Ayana and Christina’s housewarming party, Christina described the Vancouver sun through the haze of forest fire smoke and smog as looking more like the moon.
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In the basement of Our Savior’s Atonement this afternoon, Pastor John said he’s been preaching once a month about climate change and recently traveled to Albany to lobby for the Community and Climate Protection Act.

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Just between us, Mik said over drinks at Shade Bar in Greenwich Village, it scares me that white people are becoming afraid of what they might lose. History tells us they gonna get violent.
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When I see those brown recycling bins coming to the neighborhood, said a student in Amir's class in Harlem, it tells me gentrification is here and our time is running out.

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After a bite of roasted beet salad in the Trask mansion dining room, Leslie spoke of the historic spring flooding in her home state of Iowa, where the cost of repairing damages to homes is expected to reach over $480 million.
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Carolyn warned me at the breakfast table where I picked up my grapefruit spoon that I may have to get used to an inhaler to be able to breathe in spring moving forward as the pollen count continues to rise with the warming world.

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On St. Patrick's Day, Kathy, who'd made us the traditional corned beef and cabbage, conversed about the visiting guest from the botanical garden in her master gardening class, who lectured on shifting growing zones, altering what could be planted in central N.J., and when.

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Tucking into the eggplant parm, Mat described vultures in the trees of Sugarland, TX, hunting dead animals who drowned in Hurricane Harvey, during which he had difficulty fording flooded streets to reach his mother's nursing home.

On his second helping of vegetable risotto, Antonius reflected that in Vietnam, where his parents are from, the rate of migration from the Mekong Delta, with its sea-water soiled crops, is staggering.

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After Aaron said the beach was eroding in Fire Island, the dinner conversation lulled, until somebody broke the uncomfortable silence by asking him to pass the guacamole.

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Michael, the chef, said that beef prices were up after the loss of so much livestock in this spring's Midwestern flooding, and so he'd prepared pork tacos instead.

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He added that last summer here in Saratoga Springs, more than ten inches of rain fell during the 40 day horse racing meet, forcing 50 turf races to be run on dirt track, twice as many as in the two previous years combined.
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Due to Cyclone Fanny, Ranjit said he was canceling plans to visit Kerala and heading straight back to Goa, where he would be available for gigs, lessons, jam sessions, meals.

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At the head of the table where we sat eating bagels, Aurash said we won’t solve this problem until we obsess over it, just as he obsessed over Michael Jordan and the Lamborghini Countach as a kid.

He added that, just as his parents weren’t responsible for the specific reasons they had to leave Afghanistan, in general the communities most impacted by climate change are least responsible for it.

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Bill said, polishing off a cheese danish, that what he most loves about living on First Ave. in Midtown East, is the unobstructed view of the East River whose rise he also fears.

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Ashley wasn’t eating when he glancingly referred to the drought in his native South Africa, which has gone on for many years.

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Balancing an empty plate in his lap, Karthik said that New York City (an archipelago of 40 islands) with all its hubris, should be looking to Sri Lanka, another vulnerable island community, for lessons in resilience.

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We have more in common, he went on, with the affective stresses of low lying small island coastal regions such as the Maldives, Seychelles, Cape Verde, Malaysia, Hong Kong, the Caribbean than with a place like Champaign, Illinois—

—I’m from Champaign! Pamela interrupted to take umbrage with Karthik’s rezoning, her mouth full and eyes ablaze.
It’s in a flood plain, too! she cried. We’re all sitting at this table now.
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Six year old Jack was disappointed to have little league cancelled again this morning because of the rainfall. “But I really, really wanted to wear my new cleats today! It’s not fair,” he complained over gluten-free breakfast cereal.
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"Personally, I'm not that into the future," said Centime, who had a different sense of mortality having survived two bouts of breast cancer. She uncorked the fourth bottle of wine. "But I can respect your impulse to document our extinction."

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"The future is already here," replied Seretta, the only millennial in the living room where we'd gathered over takeout Indian food for an editorial meeting to comb through submissions to the transnational feminist journal centering women of color.
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In Vermont, where Miranda's family owns a second home, sugaring season for maple syrup is out whack, since maple trees are producing less sap with fewer freezing and thawing cycles, and less snow pack to protect their roots.
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Eating a slice of pizza at a child’s birthday party in a noisy arcade, Adam reminisced about the chirping of frogs at dusk in Northern Long Island —soundtrack to his childhood, silent for a decade.

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Sad to say, he mused, among the 9 million meaningless things I’ve googled, this wasn’t one. It’s like a post apocalypse version of my life: “Well, once the frogs all died, we shoulda known.” Then I strap on a breather and head into a sand storm to harvest sand fleas for soup.

Hiral, scoffing at what passes here for authentic Punjabi food, was worried about her family in Gandhinagar, and the trees of that green city, where the temperature is hovering around 114 degrees Fahrenheit, weeks before the monsoons will bring relief.
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After tee-ball practice at Dyckman Fields, while the Golden Tigers ate a snack of clementines and crackers, Adeline’s dad, an engineer who works for the Dept. of Environmental Protection, spoke uneasily of the added strain upon the sewage system by storms.
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A week after an F4 tornado touched ground a mile from his house in Kansas, Jeremiah, a self-proclaimed "Dungeon Master for life," spoke of the grassroots pitching-in among neighbors to buy stuff for the people in his community who lost everything.
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Kansans around me are mostly pragmatists focused on the short term, he said, referring to record levels of rain, flooding everywhere, late and limited corn crops projected to lead to food shortages, and more rain in the forecast.

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Taking the saran wrap off a Mediterranean platter for the award ceremony, Yana mentioned the water shortages in her native Uzbekistan, where the over-irrigated Aral Sea (once the world's 4th largest freshwater lake) is now a desolate arid scrubland of rolling sandy dunes.

She'd heard of the Stihia electronic music festival staged in that arid terrain last fall in the shrinking city of Maynaq, which used to be on a peninsula reaching into the now depleted lake. Stihia's a Russian phrase meaning "inevitable force of nature." city-journal.org/uzbekistan

Wasilla, Alaska's climate is projected to feel like that of Marinette, Wisconsin, where Sean is from by the time her grandchildren are her age, she said while munching on crudite among the divorcees, just as all cities may feel like cities 500 miles south.
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We sipped rose, listening to Javier read a poem about bright orange crabs in the roots of the mangrove trees of Estero de Jaltepeque in his native El Salvador, where the Legislative Assembly has just recognized natural forests as living entities.
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The historic move protects the rights of trees, without which our planet cannot support us. Meanwhile, Javier discusses the lack of rights of migrants at the border, recalling the journey he made at 9, unaccompanied, in a caravan surveilled by helicopters.
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In Sudan, where Dalia (who read after Javier) is from, youth in Khartoum wish to restore the ecosystem through reforestation using drones to cast seedpods in the western Darfur region, hoping to stymie disasters such as huge sandstorms called "Haboob."
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Owing to last week's massacre, one of Dahlia's poems proved too difficult for her to share. "I'd be reading a memorial," she explained. I strained to hear the slant unspoken rhyme between the rising sandstorms and the dying mangroves, hemispheres apart.
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