Climate change confronts everyone with deciding what to carry to safety

Evidence

I was a climate refugee for just one night, but it was enough. The waves of heat we are feeling now as a result of climate change aren’t yet as crushing as the ones that rocked us that night, but they too are out of season. I never thought that night of what I might save from a burning house, but that is the question we all face in a time of climate change. What do you love too much to lose? Who and what will you carry to safety? — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1367

Categorization

• SEED: The ‘what would you carry from a burning house’ question is an essay/interview prompt for eco-justice pedagogy — surfacing how values attach to place and beings.
• FICTION: The question doubles as a narrative engine: a story where characters must choose what to save from climate-driven loss.