“Climate change despite being so definitely caused by humans is so profoundly non-human; so expansive that our understanding is continually outpaced by its total seepage into our environment. Climate change is both a thing and much much more sign that a mere thing could ever be.”

Climate change can sometimes be baffling to think about and can become invisible to human perception by its sheer magnitude. Our partners at Hot Mess tackle the sometimes overwhelming topic of climate change with a metaphor from a 19th century novella…