A Palliative Approach to the End of the World

What if we accept that we’ll never solve climate change?

E.E. Demore
Human Parts
Published in
9 min readApr 25, 2019

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Illustration: Holly Stapleton

Slag

I grew up on the lip of a crater. Sudbury is a mining city, but it is at the same time a place of rugged beauty. It is a place where the Canadian shield reveals itself, protruding to the surface like a leviathan’s rocky spine, cold and prehistoric.

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