Sublime

In the twenty-first century fiction might thereby become the most potent force on earth, surpassing even wayward asteroids and natural selection.

Harpers.

The goal has been clear for thirty years, and despite earnest efforts we’ve made essentially no progress toward reaching it.

it’s what happens that matters,

Oak.

contended

He’d be nothing. He wouldn’t even be 571. The real authorities could turn him into anything at all.

Baldwin

Other kinds of apocalypse, whether religious or thermo-nuclear or asteroidal, at least have the binary neatness of dying: one moment the world is there, the next moment it’s gone forever. Climate apocalypse, by contrast, is messy. It will take the form of increasingly severe crises compounding chaotically until civilization begins to fray. Things w