Two “i’s” in climate is just the tip of the iceberg.
This is a blog about what it’s like to be a 48-year old woman waking up to the reality of climate change in 2019. It’s about trying to enter the name for this blog without first enlarging the type by 200% and therefore typing it as www.goingthroughthecliimatechange.blogspot.com . Apparently, even though my thighs and belly and brain are softening daily, there’s some vital component of my eye that’s hardening at an astonishing rate according to my new friend, the eye doctor, who has reassured me that this is normal and has kindly provided me with three pairs of glasses, none of which I ever seem to have on hand during important URL-typing moments like these. This blog is about waking up to the clanging, terrifying alarm that is climate change and learning that the worst of it has happened during the last thirty years – the years you were busy being a carefree teen, polluting the roads in your Honda Prelude and then a college kid who decided to dedicate her life’s work to some...