Volume 16, Issue 1 (2020) The Coral Issue

“We need the imagination to have fairy tales, but will the imagination survive the extinction of coral?” Kate Bernheimer recently wrote... “As long as we have threatened species, the imagination is also threatened.” But that observation works both ways. So long as we fail to imagine the stories of life in its numerous and diverse manifestations, species will be threatened. The current climate crisis is, at its heart, a failure of imagination. And if we have previously failed to imagine the depth and scope of the problem, going forward we must not fail to imagine the depth and scope ofthe solution. Thankfully, those of us familiar with fairy tales and myths will find ourselves at an advantage, for these stories have long challenged us to expand our perception and preconceived notions of what is possible.

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