Archives of time and kin

We have treated you as background, as scenery, as reservoirs to be measured and mined. Yet you are archives of time and kin to so many beings. As you thin and retreat, you unwrite familiar futures and force us to remember that nothing about our climate was ever guaranteed. I hope we can learn to listen to you not only as warnings, but as teachers, and that in caring for the cold, we might yet relearn how to care for each other.

- Norbert Horvath, Hungary, journalist and climate communicator