wrul (pre‐2023) quoted The Climate Cure by Tim Flannery
Emergencies test governments, organisations and individuals. Although Australia’s prompt, science-led response to COVID-19 has not …
Content warning Black Summer bushfires, COVID-19 pandemic
Australians and Chinese people had taken to wearing masks, but for very different reasons — Australians because of potentially deadly smoke from the climate‐induced megafires, and the Chinese because of the new respiratory disease. Things that travel invisibly in the Great Aerial Ocean, as I’ve come to think of our atmosphere, represent a particular danger, because the atmosphere links us in the most intimate of ways.
— The Climate Cure by Tim Flannery (Page 5)
I don’t appreciate how Flannery writes about people, but as oceanic seems a cool way of interpreting the phenomenon of atmosphere.