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the city’s forestry department where he has been told that the children he takes through

High Park will no longer be able to touch the sticks they find. In the interest of

conservation, the PINE Project will have to import sticks and remove them at the end of

each day—like props on a theatre set. To treat nature as untouchable, to treat children

as intruders, where does this lead?

The museum has returned the diorama to me as something strange and unsettled, a

compartment but also a comportment.

The questions that linger are these:

Can art/literature be a hammer to plate glass thinking?

How, finally, might we fight against “the diminution of the world”?

With thanks to Catherine Bush, Sharon English, Alissa York, Kathryn Kuitenbrower, and

Lise Weil.

CATHERINE BUSH

Writing the Weather

Last month saw the biggest year-over-year jump in atmospheric levels of heat-trapping

carbon dioxide on record. And that, reports NOAA, the US weather service, took May

2016 to the highest monthly levels of CO2 in the air ever measured — 407.7 ppm.