Climate Hopefulness Faces the Fire in Deep History

In the couple of days since I saw Deep History at the Public, I’ve found myself in the uncomfortably familiar position of reading about yet another once-in-a-lifetime climate event: Hurricane Milton comes just weeks after the damage wrought by Hurricane Helene, all part of a fierce new normal. “Often we talk about climate change like it’s this apocalyptic event that’s on its way and we need to prevent it from hitting,” David Finnigan says in his introduction to Deep History.