1,001 Voices on Climate Change is humanizing the climate change conversation 💚 🌎
Seven years ago, I walked out the front door with a cardboard sign around my neck that said “tell me a story about water” on one side and “tell me a story about climate change” on the other. My goal was to humanize an issue often discussed in terms of numbers: millimeters of sea level rise or degrees of temperature change.
Picture a murderous king. Incensed that his wife had cheated on him, King Shahriyar ordered that she be executed, and then, as an act of vengeance, he proceeded to wed every woman in the kingdom, one by one, enjoy their company for a night, and then murder them in the morning. Katrine Boel Gregussen is a representative in her late twenties for Norway’s Socialist Left Party. “I’m really afraid of how the future’s going to look if we’re digging for oil,” she told me at her kitchen table. “It’s a matter of money. We have been living good because of the oil in Norway for so many years, but now we know so much better.” The only way to continue to drill for fossil fuels, she added, is to blatantly disregard the future impacts.
She is heartened by the generation of environmentalists coming up behind her. “They understand that this is no joke,” she said. “I think that does a lot for the generations that come after us.” Katrine maintains hope that even though oil is so inextricably tied to Norwegian identity, “we’ll move in the right direction.”I ask people for stories about water because we often don’t know how to talk about climate change.
When the rain came—fast, thick, and percussive—I watched the most agile members of each household leap outside. They shook rainwater out of their eyes as they assured that the pipe was attached properly to their roof and tank. Water here is precious and threatened.“We have to wait for the rain,” she said.
Lupita wouldn’t let her mom throw it away. She thought of it as her aquarium. A few days later, “little bugs” began to squiggle around. After a week, she told me, there were fish. Lupita had her aquarium. She loved it.
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