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Bill Stigliani
By Bill Stigliani • Posted May 13, 2021
I was born in the year of the Hiroshima bomb. Thank God since that time we have not witnessed another such nuclear detonation eviscerating another unsuspecting city. After all these years I am now a grandfather my grandson Ever was born three-quarters of a century after Hiroshima.
I am madly in love with Ever, and yet the metaphor of Hiroshima lingers like a specter at the feast. The bomb has not gone away, it has just morphed into another kind of devastation called climate change.
The year I was born, the atmospheric concentration of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO