Title: A new kind of climate change book brings emotions to the table
Headings: A new kind of climate change book brings emotions to the table
A new kind of climate change book brings emotions to the table
“All We Can Save” doesn’t shy away from doom or hope, encompassing the enormity of climate change
Cassie Freund
How Movies Like 'Black Panther' Could Help Us Save the Planet
Heaven or High Water

Content: Pierre-Louis’ essay, among others, made me question my outlook. The fact that so many of the writers in this group, who know an immense amount about what humanity has already accomplished and what remains to be tackled, still have hope that we can overcome the climate crisis was encouraging to me. I’m not yet entirely convinced that it is possible, but I hope I’m wrong. Both of these essays embody the central thesis of the book: that we cannot overcome the challenges of climate change without real, structural change. The way that traditional long-form essays are punctuated with free-form poetry, where words are scattered across the pages, subtly makes this point. The essayists say it bluntly. Purchase via IndieBound or Amazon
For example, in her essay “A Field Guide for Transformation,” Leah Cardamore Stokes reflects on her own efforts to address climate change at increasingly large scales. She started as a child by getting her friends to recycle their milk boxes from school lunch, convinced her local grocery store to stop selling Chilean sea bass as a teenager, and eventually ran a campaign to get residence halls at her university to cut their energy usage. Now an assistant professor of political science who studies energy and environmental policy, Stokes writes, “No one can unilaterally choose to live in a low-carbon economy.”