Breakfast Club: August 31, 2020

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Hazy skies above the California coast.

Good morning. 

One of humanity's most remarkable characteristics is our capacity to normalize crisis. From ever-worsening wildfires, to government incompetence and spiraling pandemic, we've a unique tendency to adapt to the horrific.  
 
But there is danger in this writes my grad-school colleague Bathsheba Demuth in an eloquent essay out this week in the Atlantic.
 
Demuth, an historian at Brown, contracted COVID-19 in April, and her case has been persistent. She's a "long-hauler" with the disease and still runs a fever most days. A specialist in human-environment relations in Russia and Alaska, she compares her diminished health to the searing heat and wildfire that's infected the Arctic:

"In April I assumed I could wake each morning and work ’til evening; now I route my days around my body’s weather. People born in Siberia early this century have watched summers warm dramatically. Their children may…