Today with sea-surface temperatures on the rise the oceans are acidifying, some shelled animals are already showing signs of their shells dissolving. Gazing into a past and gauging possible futures emerge together. Far to the north and south ice melts, slips or crashes into the sea lifting here, and flipping over, drawn to a moon hidden behind the glare of a sun reflecting on the "multiple unpredictable amplifying feedback loops working together." I've sailed this ocean as it drank in an atmosphere of dark drizzle, our molecules melding, and lapping its ports and earthen shores.

 

Today: L. Joel, "Burning Fossil Fuel Helped Drive Earth's Most Massive Extinction." New York Times, Nov. 18, 2020. (Slightly altered)
multiple: D. Chakrabarty, "The Anthropocene and the Convergence of Histories." In, C. Hamilton, et.al., eds., The Anthropocene and
the Global Enviromental Crises. London and New York, 2015.