This past summer, one in three North Americans experienced some kind of weather disaster. Climate change used to be a distant forecast; now it has begun reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety, and forcing us to re-examine who we are and how we live. Environmental journalist Madeline Ostrander reflects on what climate change means not as an abstract scientific or political problem but as a palpable force that is now affecting us at home. Interspersed among people's accounts are a series of essays meditating on the idea of home.
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