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

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

Looked up Adrienne Maree Brown after her brief chapter on emergent strategy. Still utopian but in a more scientific way? Reminiscent of when Carlos Rovelli on quantum physics starts to remind you of a philosopher

I attended a Yawanawa Singing Circle hosted by a German medicine woman in Kenya. She acknowledged that neither she nor her (native) teachers knew the meaning of the words they sang, but were preserving the tradition for its emotional resonance. Which I read as, « we hope that someday we’ll understand better why it feels significant to do this » Cool mystery! Not a basis for running modern organizations

The essay written by the forester was, to me, more compelling than the long excerpt (from Mitchell’s book?) in advocating for fresh paradigms on which to base our relationship with nature. Indigenous knowledge is incomplete in the same way that scientific knowledge is incomplete; deifying one in response to historical deification of the other does not somehow achieve balance.

So far, this collection is very 2020-coded. Back when we believed that naming all specific interest groups was enough to protect them from the tyranny of the majority. But we could be in for some moving poetry / prose