Now that a massive chunk of the Arctic ice shelf has calved itself off like a drifting tundra cracker—due to a variety of factors, all of which could be swept under the header of ‘global warming’—we have our second symbolic event to cast a shadow over the new year. The execution of Saddam Hussein was the first. One is geographic, the other geopolitical. Welcome to 2007. So far we’ve escaped without a natural disaster, although a large part of the ice shelf snapping off could arguably be considered as such.
From the Dare to Dream desk we have this link to essayist Rebecca Solnit’s backward view from the year 2025 in The Nation. In dreams begin responsibilities, and it is such a nice, strange dream…
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