What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (861 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807078042 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Wen Stephenson, an independent journalist and climate activist, is a contributing writer for the Nation. Formerly an editor atthe Atlantic and the Boston Globe, he has also written about climate, culture, and politics for Slate, the New York Times, Grist, and the Boston Phoenix
Bullard, author of Dumping in Dixie and co-author of The Wrong Complexion for Protection“To take the climate crisis seriously is to take it personally, to let it shake your soul. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Ph.D., Missioner for Creation Care, Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts“It has been often said that the fight against climate disruption needs stories and heroes to bring the struggle to life. Well, look no further than Wen Stephenson’s What We’re Fighting for Now is Each Other. This is a profound, soul-stirring exploration by a twenty-first century abolitionist who, when he warns that it’s too late, means that it’s not too late.”—Todd Gitlin, author of The Sixties and Occupy Nation
A Brilliant, Anguished, and Absolutely Indispensable Cry to Save Our Planet rokeisland If you care about the future of the planet - and it's hard to imagine who doesn't - this is a book that demands to be read. Stephenson - a journalist contributing to the Nation, walker to Walden, father, husband, Zen Buddhist practitioner, climate change and DivestHarvard activist - has not only studied the science, and talked the talk with us a. JulieG said So you don't really consider yourself an 'activist', but. So you don't really consider yourself an 'activist', but you understand and are concerned about climate change and its likely consequences, and struggle with what you could or should do to engage? If this strikes a chord with you, this book could be a thought-provoking read for you. It was for me. This book is going to stick with me.It's not a c. How to save your soul by joining the fight for climate justice Quinton Zondervan As a young activist relays to him, being a climate activist is like walking around with a knife in your chest. Wen takes that knife and twists it a little bit, not to cause us pain but to wake us up a little more. As a nearly fulltime activist for over 3 years now and an environmentalist for all of my adult life, I was sure going into reading th
As an individual of conscience, how will you respond?In 2010, journalist Wen Stephenson woke up to the true scale and urgency of the catastrophe bearing down on humanity, starting with the poorest and most vulnerable everywhere, and confronted what he calls “the spiritual crisis at the heart of the climate crisis.” Inspired by others who refused to retreat into various forms of denial and fatalism, he walked away from his career in mainstream media and became an activist, joining those working to build a transformative movement for climate justice in America.In What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other, Stephenson tells his own story and offers an up-close, on-the-ground look at some of the remarkable and courageous people—those he calls “new American radicals”—who have laid everything on the line to build and inspire this fast-growing movement: old-school environmentalists and young climate-justice organizers, frontline community leaders and Texas tar-sands blockaders, Quakers and college students, ev