All We Can Save
by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine Wilkinson (eds.)
Sixty women on the climate crisis. Science, poetry, grief, and action.
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you are exhausted by climate doom and need to hear from the people who are doing the actual work of building something different
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Sixty women — scientists, poets, farmers, lawyers, activists, Indigenous land defenders — writing about the climate crisis from inside their specific expertise and their specific grief. Johnson and Wilkinson assembled this anthology because they noticed that the climate conversation was dominated by men with graphs, and that the people doing the most creative and grounded work were often women who weren't getting the microphone. What emerged is the most emotionally complete climate book ever published — not a single argument but a chorus, not a problem to be solved but a world to be tended. The poems are as rigorous as the science. The science is as personal as the poems. The most important Make Something Better book on the climate shelf.
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