How to maintain hope in the face of catastrophic climate change? Hope is key, as Emily Dickinson and John Muir understood.
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Earth-Hearted Hope for Dark Times
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Cloud Cuckoo Land: The Power of Story
Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land” is testimony to the power of story to save us when we need saving.
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Indigenous Authors May Save Us
Silko’s “Ceremony” shows the way towards a climate-friendly future, if only we will listen.
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Amazon Fires and the Fury of Achilles
Monday Few news items have alarmed and depressed me as much as the burning of the Amazon rain forests, often called the “lungs of the world.” As National Geographic reports The Amazon rainforest—home to one in 10 species on Earth—is on fire. As of last week, 9,000 wildfires were raging simultaneously across the vast rainforest […]
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Climate Change Witchery
Leslie Marmon Silko’s nightmare vision of environmental destruction is being hastened by the Trump administration.
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Brother Fire Ravages California
Louis MacNeice captures what northern California is experiencing in “Brother Fire.” The poem also reveals a disturbing dark side in how we respond to catastrophe.
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Trump, GOP Sacrifice Our Climate Future
Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out the the Paris Climate Accord, and the GOP’s willingness to go along, reveal an absolute contempt for the next generation. Such contempt is at the heart of Russell Hoban’s dystopian nightmare “Riddley Walker.”
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