"I’ve been really intrigued by the idea of the end of the world — how it’s never really real, though it may feel like it is to us living in the midst of climate change as we are. Except on the scale of billions of years, according to the kind of timeline where suns birth and die and so on, worlds are quite adaptive creatures. Earth has had five or so ice ages. Dinosaurs have come and gone, many dying, others living on as birds. Mass extinction is par for the planet’s course…"
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On the end of the world framing faer story “St. Juju” in “Rivers Solomon on colonialism, the apocalypse, and fascinating fungus” in The Verge (2019 Jan 28)
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