How High We Go in the Dark

They called me Tiamat, the Sumerians.

When she was seven hundred years old, still a baby by world builder standards, I walked my daughter to the seed field where I had been designing Earth.

the Great Transition of 2070, over thirty years ago now

The vessel is almost fifteen feet long and nine feet high.

Wild horses graze; a sea otter in the bay cracks a crab on a rock; eagle eggs perched on a narrow shelf of a cliff face begin to hatch.

They were all places that might not exist within a lifetime

the Maldives, Key West, New Orleans, Venice.

the seas might rise as much as three feet by 2100 with glacial melt even if we do everything right,

SUICIDE GROUPS FILL IN THE GAPS WHERE SOCIAL SERVICES FAIL.

People have forgotten how to care for each other, for themselves. We can’t expect them to care about the world if they don’t care about what’s in front of them,”