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The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the EarthAs writer Elizabeth Rush prepares for her two-month expedition to Antarctica, on an icebreaker ship staffed with scientists from around the globe, she is focused on danger and on scarcity. The researchers are traveling to the Thwaites Glacier, a behemoth whose potential collapse could dramatically reshape the time line and scale of sea-level rise. “Will Miami even exist in a hundred years?” Rush muses. “Thwaites will decide.
As dozens of climate researchers head toward the “doomsday glacier,” this question is thrown into especially sharp relief. Resonances arise organically among the potential futures of Antarctica, the challenges of predicting the climate system, and motherhood. All are uncertain, and all are attached to unforgiving deadlines. “I know what it feels like to fear that there may not be many meaningful strategies left,” Rush writes. In another instance, “there is a clock, and it is ticking.
Rush herself pitches in with the data collection—sometimes helpfully and once, memorably, to disastrous effect—and she comes away with a fresh view of the work of scientific research, something she begins to understand as “a deeply communal act.” Ultimately Rush determines that the work of parenting, like the floating village of people studying the glacier, is paving the way for other, better futures.
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