In The Quickening, author Elizabeth Rush grapples with what it means to have a child in the midst of a changing climate.
That's because — were it to disintegrate — Thwaites, roughly the size of Florida, could cause catastrophic sea level rise.
Rush, grasping for an image, compares Thwaites to the Wall in Game of Thrones — a colossal wall of ice, ominous, its stillness broken occasionally by "some rumbling and some slumping." "I think that that's a sensation that we all know really well. None of us have lived through accelerated climate change. And so it's happening all around us, but it's really hard to put our finger on it.", author Elizabeth Rush discusses the book that emerged from her journey to Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.The first recorded sighting of Antarctica was in January 1820, Rush points out.Many of those accounts, Rush says, revolve around narratives of conquest.
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