We want to save the world even if we know
we could drown trying. So I try to follow sites
collecting good news about climate change—
small wins that in the aggregate might tip
the balance. Chinook salmon returning
to the Klamath River after the removal of
four dams, otters sighted again in the Elizabeth
and Rappahannock Rivers. Wetlands coming
back, and animals from near extinction. It’s hard
to cultivate hope in a landscape which is only bleak.
Yet here, beside the water, mushrooms spring up
after yesterday’s flood, and green blades push
through concrete. You have to admire that kind
of standing ground, that stubborn insistence.
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