“Is It Going to Get Us?” Climate Dystopia, Borders, and the Future
A reflection on the world’s heatwaves and fires, from the borderlands of Greece and Arizona.
On the evening of July 23, my phone buzzed with an emergency alert. I was on the island of Corfu, Greece. There was a fire. Sure enough, I looked up and saw a plume of smoke coming over a ridge. It didn’t look far. Was it just a cloud? No— as night fell, my frivolous hope was debunked when t…
