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For the Marshall Islands, climate change isn’t some distant, future danger: It is already wreaking havoc across the Pacific country鈥檚 more than 1,100 low-lying atolls …. As sea levels rise around the islands, bigger waves will flood farther inland than ever before. If enough of these waves hit in succession, flooded saltwater will irreparably taint the islands鈥� freshwater supplies …. one of the Marshall Islands鈥� atolls鈥攁nd potentially thousands of other islands鈥攃ould become uninhabitable when sea levels rise by 16 inches, which could happen as soon as midcentury.

In the film 鈥淭he Island of the Colorblind,鈥� Sacks tells this story while visiting the small Micronesian atoll of Pingelap, where an unusually large portion of the population is affected by complete achromatopsia, or total color blindness. Whereas an estimated one in forty thousand people worldwide are afflicted with this condition, among the Pingelapese, by some estimates, it鈥檚 closer to one in ten鈥攁 contained community of people who see the world in shades of gray.

Respecting neurodiversity means challenging assumptions about what intelligence is and how to measure it. It means reminding ourselves that just because a person can鈥檛 speak doesn鈥檛 mean they aren鈥檛 listening. It means not asking someone to prove their intelligence before talking to them in an age-appropriate way or offering them intellectually stimulating opportunities. It means remembering that there can be a huge disconnect between mind and body, and that a person鈥檚 actions may not reflect their intentions, especially when they are overwhelmed or upset.

While diversity metrics such as race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability are widely tracked among law firms and legal departments, the use of neurodiversity metrics as part of their DEI initiatives currently lags far behind聽…. It would behoove employers to implement more neurodiversity tracking. Neurodiverse employees often perform better and more efficiently at certain mathematical and computer tasks, which could be beneficial regarding legal tech usage. They can voice creative ideas at meetings and present new ways to approach problem-solving that their neurotypical counterparts may have overlooked. To achieve true diversity, tracking this important metric is essential.

She disappears into the morning air, over a single hill on the far end of Main Street鈥攐ver the hill, getting consumed by the large homes and the enormous trees that fill that part of town, swallowed up and digested, so that before I know it, as I stand, feet frozen to concrete in the middle of the street, she鈥檚 no longer there .鈥� [I] watch as the woman goes, watch as she evanesces over the hill and into the morning鈥檚 fog.

Kramer鈥檚 book was the source for some of the feeling that the new wave of antidepressants might turn us into other people, people whom we might not want to be. This was the crude set of questions now posed: if Prozac and the other SSRIs did away with ordinary unease, what was left of you per se? What else might evanesce along with sadness? Realism? Profundity? Scepticism? Irony? The milder, more productive kinds of melancholy? The very need to think or write or make art?