Tag: British Columbia
The Wildfire Survivors Who Didn’t Want to Be Climate Models
Everyone says Lytton was a beautiful place to live. The small Canadian town sits at the confluence of two rivers and was built on one of the oldest continuously inhabited areas in North America—the Nlaka’pamux people have called it home for more than 10,000 years. About 250 people lived in the Lytton of the recent past, on a few cross streets and several dozen lots—you could take it in all in one breath. One blistering June evening in 2021, a
Is Racial ‘Color-Blindness’ Possible?
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Last week, I asked, “What roles should ‘color-blindness’ and race-consciousness play in personal interactions?”
Replies have been edited for length and clarity.
Adam is of two minds:
… Read moreThe phrase “I don’t see color” is deservedly a joke; it’s hard to imagine growing up in America and never
The Biologists Stranded on an Erupting Alaskan Volcano
On the evening of August 6, 2008, on a remote island in Alaska’s Aleutian chain, the side of a volcano began crumbling into the turquoise waters of its crater lake. Gulls fled from the falling rock. The wind whistled around Chris Ford as he peered over the lip of the crater. “It’s starting to get tumbling down pretty good,” he shouted into his radio.
Ford had climbed up the volcano’s steep slope to get a bird’s-eye view of the small