The Atlantic: Address Climate Change, or You Might End Up in a Cave Drinking Urine and Eating Radio

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The Atlantic: Address Climate Change, or You Might End Up in a Cave Drinking Urine and Eating Radioactive Insects
Eric Worrall / 7 hours ago September 10, 2018   

William T. Vollmann

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

A sneak preview of the next level of climate activism.
 

    NATHANIEL RICH
    OCTOBER 2018 ISSUE

    Authors like to flatter themselves by imagining for their work an “ideal reader,” a cherubic presence endowed with bottomless generosity, the sympathy of a parent, and the wisdom of, well, the authors themselves. In Carbon Ideologies, William T. Vollmann imagines for himself the opposite: a murderously hostile reader who sneers at his arguments, ridicules his feeblemindedness, scorns his pathetic attempts at ingratiation. Vollmann can’t blame this reader, whom he addresses regularly throughout Carbon Ideologies, because she lives in the future, under radically different circumstances—inhabiting a “hotter, more dangerous and biologically diminished planet.” He envisions her turning the pages of his climate-change opus within the darkened recesses of an underground cave in which she has sought shelter from the unendurable heat; the plagues, droughts, and floods; the methane fireballs racing across boiling oceans. Because the soil is radioactive, she subsists on insects and recycled urine, and regards with implacable contempt her ancestors, who, as Vollmann tells her, “enjoyed the world we possessed, and deserved the world we left you.”

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[dfwgator]

Well it sure beats living in a van down by the river.

[Wingnut]

Well, la-dee-frickin-da!

[Bigun]

30 seconds of my life I'll never get back!  What a loon!