After the Storm
By Anthony Barnosky / On March 18th, 2009
When you’re in the middle of a forest fire, trees exploding all around you, smoke burning your lungs, and fireballs dropping from the sky, it’s hard to think about much except getting out of there alive. That’s kind of where we are with thinking about global warming nowadays—the direct impacts on people. How many lose their homes when sea level rises? What new diseases are going to make their way out of the tropics? How many dollars will it take to cut carbon emissions?
