Chapter 6 — Noticing the Good

A serial novel in the form of correspondence among a family while the world as we know it collapses around us. I recommend you start at the Introduction:

https://medium.com/climate-for-change/climate-for-change-introduction-5331d5ab9313

But you can start anywhere you want.

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Chapter 6:

Email:

Dear Benji,

I wish I were exaggerating. If anything, the English Broadcast Group made it sound worse than I told you. They broadcast a statement from the British prime minister advising all British citizens to leave the U.S.A. as soon as possible. They are concerned about an impending environmental disaster and the inability of our inflexible and underfunded government systems to respond. The EBG announcer today said that all three storms on the Atlantic side had been upgraded to category 5 hurricanes. They each have names: Harold in the Gulf, Imelda off of Florida, and Justine bearing down on D.C. Our own weather website has not classified any of them as hurricanes, let alone Cat 5 hurricanes. I did an Internet search for the word “hurricane,” and I was surprised to find out that the weather website has not used the word for over three years. We have had “bad tropical storms” but no “hurricanes.” That is odd, but not odd if you think about it. If they ban the word “hurricane,” people might not freak out as much about climate change. Instead they might even think that the weather is getting less extreme. I will keep…