Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures.
With clear-eyed essays, vibrant interviews, data, poetry, and art, Ayana guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice.
A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living.
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer asks questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces Indigenous teachings that consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take “us on a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Drawing on her life as an Indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices.
From The Great Simplification podcast series, host Nate Hagens speaks with Dr. Johan Rockström, joint director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Germany), about the nine Planetary Boundaries. When we think of our warming planet, we think predominantly of climate change as the primary issue. But in this interview, Dr. Rockström discusses the nine interconnected systems that sustain all life on earth, of which climate is one factor.
Dr. Rockström helps us understand the importance of the boundaries, the severity of the threats to all life on our planet, and suggests a more secure, peaceful, and equitable future is possible if we commit to taking action now.
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