To consider my turn to Get Ready With me videos as a coping mechanism during a time of crisis is to explore my relationship to the future. Against the backdrop of an uncertain future, I view it as a nihilistic impulse – a deeply gendered way of negotiating crisis and break in belief or enthusiasm for alternative futures.

The depiction of climate change as opportunity is founded upon a particular notion of temporality, where the privileging of an imaginary future subsumes any knowledge of the devastation in the present or losses from the past. Most significantly, this view obscures the toll of climate change on human life as it is lived today.