The next act encompasses in more focused detail the narrator's look backwards down the path, beginning at their shared home in the present day, where the dissociation introduced in act one as almost entirely a self-inclosed thing trickles outward and troubles the comfort outlined in the last section of the song preceding it. He examines his own life through imagined self-portraits, in various sequences of time (fractions of days first, then weeks, months, years), and through multiple specific events.
"I think of climate change as a crisis of imagination," said Kleeman, whose 2021 novel, 'Something New Under the Sun,' centers on the topic. "We understand that climate change is a crisis in the world, but we have difficulty bridging it to our lives and conceiving of its magnitude."
