At a public event where she’s the invited guest, the author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about extinction, written a decade ago, wonders whether she’s had any impact. I remember devouring the book. It inspired me to write a short play that went on to be performed a hundred times in a dozen countries. And yet, the question is familiar – I struggle with it almost every day. Am I having an impact? Is any of us? Will we witness, in my lifetime, the results of our collective efforts to set the world on the right path?

A YEARs-LONG CREATIVE EXPLORATION OF THE CLIMATE THROUGH 100-WORD STORIES • WEEK 37