Usha Alexander

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Climate Truth and Fiction

This is a series of essays in which I raise questions about environmental distress, the human experience, and storytelling. These columns appear on the website 3 Quarks Daily.

1 What We Talk About When We Talk About the Weather 2 A Story of Fire and Ice 3 Of Wanderers and Nomads 4 Tales From a Changing World 5 Lost and Found in Eden 6 Modern Myths of Human Power 7 Our Moment on Earth 8 Views of Future Earth 9 Upheaval and Migration 10 On Progress as Human Destiny 11 Of Gods and Men and Human Destiny 12 Musings on the Anthropocene 13 Stories of Wealth and Distribution 14 Toward a Polyphony of Stories 15 What a Way To Go 16 Stories of Continuity 17 Stories of Collapse 18 This Is Not the Zombie Apocalypse 19 What We Talk About When We Talk About the Future

This is a picture of my friend, Melody, on the ni-Vanuatu Island of Ambae, back in 1997. She’s holding a fish she just spent all afternoon reeling in, using a length of nylon string, a hook, and an empty water bottle for a fishing rod, as she paddled along the offshore reef in her canoe.