'When we read the whale book, I am young again and I am comforted. In the whale book, there is still time to change. In the real world, I’m not sure.' lydiakiesling writes on what she tells her daughters about climate disaster
Photo-Illustration: by Stevie Remsberg The Low Hum is a column tuned to the frequency of climate-change anxiety that underpins every aspect of our lives.
At night, we put the children to bed in the tent and light a fire, suddenly welcome in the cool dark air. I read an article about the late environmentalist Rachel Carson in a magazine. Carson was famous for warning the world about DDT, but first she was a marine biologist. Our new city is allegedly overdue for an earthquake of cataclysmic proportions. It is my policy to be matter-of-fact about this with my older child, who is now almost 5, her sister almost 2. Before we move, I lie with the older one in her lofted bed underneath an Ikea canopy designed to look like a castle and I tell her about what the earthquake might feel like. I tell her it could last six or seven minutes, which will feel like a very long time.
The previous owners left things all over the house. There are plastic gallon bottles of what I think is emergency water in the basement. The basement is a low, clammy space, unfinished and full of ancient cement and plaster. It is very cool. Upstairs, in a stifling place under the eaves, we find a cache of Christmas wrapping paper and three paperbacks. One of these is called Whales of the World. It is from 1987 and is, as described in the title, full of photographs and facts about whales.
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