Christchurch photography by Simon Sellars. This piece was written in April 2011 and originally published in October 2011 as the Afterword to Changing the Climate: Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe, eds Andrew Milner, Simon Sellars and Verity Burgmann (Melbourne: Arena Publications, 2011). TWO OBSERVATIONS While this volume was being prepared, the Tohoku earthquake hit northern Japan. [...]