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Rebecca Solnit is the best-selling author of numerous books, including A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; Hope in the Dark; and Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics.
Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual.
Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation.
In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later–in 1951–and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site.
Big tech isn’t interested in a better world, just a more profitable one. To beat it, we need to break its stranglehold on us.
What is happening now is astonishingly worse than any previous fire season. We are in a new kind of era.
Even in such a divided and troubled country, there is hope. Between us we can beat the climate destroyers.
We can make peace, with our energy sources, the planet and with each other if we end our addiction to oil.
While Covid ravaged across the world, air pollution killed about three times as many people. We must fight the climate crisis with the same urgency with which we confronted coronavirus.
If we are to survive, we must follow the demands and examples of the next generation.
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