When rain is just as dangerous as drought
Raindrops keep falling—and it's a big problem.
By Eleanor Cummins August 16, 2018
If you close your eyes and picture climate change, what do you see? What do you hear, feel, and taste? Your mind might not be painting the whole picture.
In her western novel Gold Fame Citrus, author Claire Vaye Watkins imagines “Air hazy and amber with smoke… Ticks clinging to the dead grass. Sand in the bedsheets… Some ruined heaven.†In the climate fiction classic The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi envisions “
parse and lonely campfires†where Las Vegas used to be, “beacons marking the location of desiccated Texas… [who] had nowhere to flee.†And Emmi Itäranta’s book-length speculative fiction, titled Memory of Water, is… pretty self-explanatory.
https://www.popsci.com/climate-change-extreme-rain
