Abstract
Our collective living through the Covid-19 global pandemic demonstrates one way for the performance of living through the climate emergency – with reduced margins, tighter restrictions, and a common desire to maintain a kind of status quo. Yet, decreased margins actually mean increased marginalization, affecting those people that the powerful identify as “simply” the victims of natural events. While the terms under which the wealthy live continue to tighten and more places and ways appear to become unlivable, more and more people live under all kinds of impoverishment. Status-quo continuity normalizes refugees dying in Arizona’s deserts and drowning in the Mediterranean, alongside the sixth great mass extinction.