From 318 to 417: My Life in Parts Per Million
Introduction. Reading plays in the Anthropocene
3 min readApr 30, 2021
THIS STORY COULD start in many places and one of them is the Pacific island of Mauna Loa. Since 1958, an observatory on the island has been monitoring the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. When continuous observations began in the late-50s, the figure stood at 315 ppm (parts per million).