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I'm Alan Ulta, and this is Clear Invidit, Conversations About Connecting and Communicating.

I remember, you know, the morning that we knew we would arrive.

I woke up super early.

I was like a kid on Christmas, and I ran up to the bridge.

A good handful of my shipmates were up there already, and many people described the glacier

on that first morning as looking sick or gnarly, that it was full of sort of like strange

crevassing and slumping.

So I remember feeling like my heart was being pulled in sort of two directions at the

same time, like incredible awe and incredible grief, to realize that like this thing that

literally has taken me a month to get to, so the farthest I've ever traveled in my entire

life is being forced into strange shapes by human activity so far away from it.

That's Elizabeth Rush.

The glacier she saw that morning is Antarctic's thweights glacier.

It's often called the Doomsday Glacier because its melting would cause sea-level rise that

would be catastrophic.

She's written a wonderful lyrical book about that journey called The Quickening, Creation

and Community at the ends of the Earth.

We began our conversation with how she developed her people-focused approach to writing about

the changing climate in an earlier book, a 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist called Rising,

the Spatches from the New American Shore.

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