All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

Climate change can be so overwhelming. Yet, the fact is there is still so much we can do to stop this crisis. This is an amazing new collection by something like 60 women working on climate change. I got to read an early copy and was blown away. There is art, poetry, inspiring stories. I felt like we can tackle this problem after reading this book. I really recommend it if you are freaked out and want to know what we can do: talk about climate change in our daily lives, change policy, support independent climate journalists, write to our representatives, take to the streets. There is so much left that we can save! Inspiring.

All We Can Save is a clarion call to action on behalf of our besieged Earth. It highlights numerous creative, insightful, and exciting examples of what is being done right now, though you likely have heard of none of them. GretaThunberg is right: the adults have failed the children and the planet–but not these adults. I scribbled notes like mad as I read story after story of amazing success all over the country. I stopped reading only to look around at my desert yard and begin to think of how I can transform it into more productive use, how I can amend the soil, find water in the dew. Specific examples throughout these 40+ stories are beyond inspiring: they bring reality to hope. Read this book, tell your friends about these undaunted women, and start walking the talk. Two things: 1. I read this book in the wake of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg\’s death. And with each of these women, I thought that without the doors the amazing RBG opened, they could not be doing what they are. 2. Fanstatic Fungi is an indie movie about mushrooms, and one of the most inspiring films you\’ll see for right now. Here\’s to the women in this book, to RBG, and to all the readers whose life will be changed by these stories. Most of all, here is to our Mother Earth.

Some chapters (perhaps I should call them essays) were inspiring and provided information I had not known. Others were more basic or even had errors. For example, one chapter stated that there would be 200 million displaced by climate by the end of the next century. What? By 2050 143 million are estimated to be displaced. By the end of this century there is an estimate for 1 billion. I did a quick search to come up with those numbers. Then in a later chapter another author quoted the 143 million I found. As a minimum the editors should have noticed the serious discrepancy in the two. One of the best chapters, in my opinion, credited Thomas Edison with promoting wind and solar power. The only issue is that another person had actually installed a wind energy system in a home years before Edison publicly promoted renewable energy. It would have been appropriate to have credited the earlier installation.

Brilliant book – so glad I read it because it was uplifting, hopeful, and a joy to read (emotions missing from anything else on our planet’s future). I was skeptical at first because I’m not that into poetry, but everything flows well together and there is lots of engaging storytelling. It’s easy to skip between chapters because each is its own story and because the editors have highlighted key portions with dots in the margins. Def recommend to anyone who has wondered what we can do about climate, how we build communities, or what examples of feminine leadership can look like.

I\’m pretty well-versed in the climate movement, including writings by several people in this collection, so I wasn\’t sure if it would feel like a retread of what I already know. But it is SO much more. The book quickly gets past the general outlines of the climate emergency, what\’s at stake, and who the leaders of the climate feminist movement are. And then, it\’s new terrain, at least for me. New ways of thinking about the situation, new facts about what\’s actually possible, what impacts the movement has already made, and where things are unraveling quickly. I love the poetry, and the specific, particular, even localized essays. This is such a worthy read.

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