![]() The book unfolds along a contracted pre-and-post-2016 election timeline, just before American media gained a new kind of climate consciousness. This is the kind of regretful squandering-of resources, time, ambition, and land-that underpins Jenny Offill’s latest novel, Weather. The rugged, sacred terrain that, in Bears Ears’ case, had been protected from coal mining and other destructive activities just a year prior was once again made vulnerable to extraction. By executive order, Bears Ears’ territory was slashed by nearly 85 percent, and Grand Staircase-Escalante, another national monument, was reduced by almost 45 percent and separated into three units. ![]() ![]() Then there was the assault on Southern Utah, with its red rock canyons, juniper groves, and countless artifacts of the region’s indigenous people. First, it was our part in the Paris Agreement, that mostly inert but monumental vow to keep the global temperature rise below 2☌ this century. Weather by Jenny Offill. Knopf, 224 pages. ![]()
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