This book is written out of Gretel Ehrlich's love for winter--for
remote and cold places, and the ways in which winter frees our
imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul--and out of
the fear that our "democracy of gratification" has irreparably
altered the climate. In The Future of Ice, Ehrlich travels to
extreme points--from Tierra del Fuego in the south to Spitsbergen,
east of Greenland, at the very top of the world--in her quest to
understand the complex, primal nature of cold.
Over the course of a year, Ehrlich and her cold-loving canine
companion experience firsthand the myriad expressions of cold, and
she gives us marvelous histories of wind, water, snow, and ice, of
ocean currents and weather cycles. Ehrlich explores how our very
awareness, our consciousness, is animated and enlivened by the
archaic rhythms and erupting oscillations of weather. As she
writes, "Weather streamed into my nose, mouth, eyes, and ears and
circulated inside my brain. . . . A gust can shove one impulse into
another; a blizzard erases a line of action; a sandstorm permeates
inspiration; rain is a form of sleep. Lightning makes scratch marks
on brains; hail gouges out a nesting place, melts, and waters the
seed of an idea that can germinate into idiocy, a joke, or genius."
We share Ehrlich's experience of the thrills of cold and also her
questions: What will happen to us if we are "deseasoned"? If winter
ends, will we survive?
"From the Hardcover edition.
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