Kathleen’s Reviews > All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis > Status Update

Mary Annaïse Hegler brings the same tone to her essay that I appreciated in Johnston’s: there’s something grounding in acknowledging we are beyond the point of no consequence. But that makes every little thing we can save all the more important to live for

Admittedly I’m always happy when someone interrupts me reading this anthology 😅 So damn serious. I am enjoying finding climate poets, though! Added Hirshfield to my To Read list

Listening to this during a long run was probably more than I could digest at one time 😅 Idea that stuck out was by Pierre-Louis: all our stories assume humans are bad for the environment. Like, Earth would be better off without us, and our job is to minimize the damage. What could we change about our mental health / motivation as activists to develop a symbiotic narrative instead? 🤔

Jack Newfield is my 2026 muse: « Compassion without anger can become pity. Knowledge without anger stagnantes into cynicism. Anger improves lucidity, persistance, audacity, and memory. »

Katharine Hayhoe is legend as a climate communicator. She delivers here: talking effectively about climate change is choosing how to express a universal issue in terms of an individual’s personal values. Plus, haunting: « We are learning all the old things, newly shined and numbered. » - Anne Haven McDonnell

Interesting insight by Thomas that « Save the Ocean » may be more politically palatable than « Save the Planet. » Admittedly I ask the same question Gunn-Wright poses rhetorically - Is the Green New Deal just a a progressive omnibus? - but I downloaded the bill to read anyway because she’s right that unified values preclude actionable plans

Yea I would work for Heather McTeer Toney. She sounds boss. Harjo’s reflections on eligibility for elected office were also thoughtful

The work Mary Anne Hitt’s led on the US Beyond Coal campaign is really impressive 👏🏻

“ Showing up creates the possibility for something different to happen.” - Abbie Dillen, President, Earthjustice

Hard to read militant essays like Naomi Klein’s when it would seem “the moment” has passed. More like a 20 Mile March (HT Jim Collin’s) than a moment. But Klein is right is that it’s in imagining a future we want that we keep going, finding the means as they arise, regardless of the context