Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Paperback, 448 pages
Published July 20, 2021 by One World.
All We Can Save is a 2020 collection of essays and poetry edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson. The collection sets out to highlight a wide range of women's voices in the environmental movement, most of whom are from North America.
This collection of essays, poems, and strategies addressing the climate crisis was full of insight & inspiration for me. I combo read and listened to the audiobook, which was a treat as well. Favorites for me were Ash Sanders’ Under the Weather and Sarah Miller’s Heaven or High Water. Excited to do our PIT book club on this.
There's about a third, I'd say, of this book that leans super heavily on "democracy! we can change things from inside!" that I found a bit trying, especially given the Current Situation and the Situation We Just Went Through but it's a collection of essays so I was very happy I stuck through those for the wider voices. The balance of voices was very broad, and in particular I found the essays about living with grief as well as the poems interspersed brought something I haven't seen much of before.
