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In the end, if anyone is left to write a history of the climate crisis, I believe it will be something like this.
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DARREN
“I’m the enemy. I was the CEO of an oil company. A big one. I was good at my job, or I thought I was. Truthfully, I now realize that I was about average. I wasn’t noticeably better than the guy who preceded me, or the fella who came after me, who replaced me when I resigned.”
NARRATOR
The climate crisis, which came to a climax in the late 2020s, was a tense, confusing and ultimately surprising time. We were all used to giant events and dominant authorities. They came in an endless stream — the resurgence of fascism, the virus, the militias, and The Storm.
Everything seemed deadly and violent and unstoppable.
Each day was more bad news, more to worry about, more to fear. We expected it to never end. Or, more accurately, we came to expect it to end — soon and badly.
DARREN
“It’s hard for ordinary people to understand what it’s like. What people in powerful positions do, and why they do it. Most people don’t realize we lived in a different world from the…
