Ideas By Lydia Millet November 19, 2024 7:00 AM EST Millet is the author of more than a dozen novels and story collections, as well as a writer and editor at the Center for Biological Diversity. Her new book, We Loved It All: A Memory of Life , is a work of nonfiction about having children in a time of extinction and climate change. She lives in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona. F or those of us with an old-fashioned commitment to justice, science, and common decency, the 2024 U.S. election