Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
But even in these polarized times, people are rising to the great environmental and moral challenges before us. In the pages of Resilience Matters, they show us how to build a greener, fairer future together.
Maybe the greatest antidote to the crises we face isn’t only policy change or protest—it’s reweaving our sense of self into the fabric of the natural world.
The Trump administration’s border policies are expected to have a big impact on this year’s largest gathering of Indigenous leaders, activists, and policymakers.
For me, the greatest joy in reading Ross West’s eco-short story collection The Fragile Blue Dot lies in the sheer brilliance of imagination and storytelling prowess on display in each piece.
The soul is neither the inner self, the divine, nor the immaterial, as traditional philosophical thinking might argue. Rather, it is that which binds us together: it is relational and environmental, and when a species goes extinct, its soul, and thereby its relations, goes with it.
It’s not that human carbon emissions don’t matter; they matter hugely. It’s that they aren’t the only matter, and are intimately coupled with the land and our treatment of it.
We must both defend existing political institutions, saying hands off, and put our hands on the wheel to build new institutions that truly address the planetary crisis.
Since you know your community best, you are in the best position to become a local environmental leader.
I walk through some of the different solutions that can help address the polycrisis and post-polycrisis period and also imagine what an ecocentric civilization of the future could look like, if we actually work toward that.
Archaeologists have an important role to play in building a climate-resilient future, but any meaningful progress would benefit from a historical approach that considers multiple ways of understanding the environment, of operating an irrigation canal and of organizing an agriculture-based economy.
Whether we’re talking about climate change, civil rights, politics, or anything else, you control the mediums you expose yourself to. Use your critical thinking, set limits and boundaries, resist the manipulation of media.
It’s difficult to see the knock-on effects of our actions and it can be very dangerous not to.
