Rebecca Solnit is a great lover of anniversaries. As we speak via Zoom on a December day, afternoon for me in London and early morning for her on the west coast of the US, she is preparing to write an article about the tenth anniversary of the Paris Climate Treaty. “Anniversaries often give us a chance to assess both what happened on that date, and where we’ve come since then,” she says. “Have we built on what happened? Have we regressed? Have we forgotten?”

That blurriness around memory and what is forgotten or unrecognised when it comes to change is a key concern for Solnit. It’s the foundation ...

 

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