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“One night a house”: Prose poem told by Inugpasugjuk. Technicians of the Sacred, ed. Jerome Rothernburg. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1969.
“by persons who are acquainted with the science”: I am indebted to Clive Hamilton, who retells this story in “Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change,” which was given as a paper at the Science and Politics conference held at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels, October 28, 2010. The original story is found in Arms and the Covenant: Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston Churchill, George C. Harrap & Ltd, 1938. The speech referenced was given to the Commons on July 30, 1934.
“The critical question for our generation”: This quotation is from God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God’s Love as the Gift of Himself by John Piper.
“Trace the water you drink”: This is adapted from “Where You At? A Bioregional Quiz,” developed by Leonard Charles, Jim Dodge, Lynn Milliman, and Victoria Stockley, which was published in Coevolution Quarterly 32 (Winter 1981).
“Hunt et al. (1992) found that a woman”: This is excerpted from the article “The Value of Pets for Human Health” in the March 2011 issue of The Psychologist.
“I find it really hard to decide on one particular region”: The speaker here is Professor Katrin Meissner, Director, UNSW, Climate Change Research Centre. She is quoted in a transcript of the show ABC Lateline, hosted by Kerry Brewster, entitled “Climate Scientists Reveal Their Fears for the Future.” The transcript is dated June 27, 2017.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jenny Offill is the author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the L.A. Times First Fiction Award) and Dept. of Speculation, which was short-listed for the Folio Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the International Dublin Literary Award. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and in the low-residency MFA program at Queens University.
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