Touch: making contact with climate change

In this work, I deal with the question of how one ought to live and raise children in the context; of environmental catastrophe. I tell several stories about my experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in The Republic of Kiribati and about the process of becoming a father. I find that while disasters like climate change are too far advanced for human beings to avoid some very disturbing consequences, we can, through storytelling, deal with those losses by making sure they are not forgotten. I conclude that personal stories about fear, loss, tragedy and hope are part of the process of healing wounds inflicted by tragedy and that it is imperative that these stories be passed on to younger generations lest they lose their capacity for empathy.