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

The future is likely to demand more of us than we know how to give,

Living in this time of crisis, for our democracy as well as the climate, is breaking my heart open and creating space for new understanding. The weight of history is on our shoulders, but this moment is alive with possibility.] —

[How can we bear this anxiety and grief for the whole world? More important, how can we find our power to act and limit the damage?

Many of us have been socialized to understand that constant growth, violent competition, and critical mass are the ways to create change. But emergence shows us that adaptation and evolution depend more upon critical, deep, and authentic connections, a thread that can be tugged for support and resilience.] The quality of connection between the node

natural selection isn’t individual but mutual—that species survive only if they learn to be in community.

“All that you touch you change / all that you change, changes you.” We are constantly impacting and changing our civilization—each other, ourselves, intimates, strangers. And we are working to transform a world that is, by its very nature, in a constant state of change.

Nothing is wasted, or a failure. Emergence is a system that makes use of everything in the interactive process. It’s all data.

Oak trees don’t set an intention to listen to each other better or agree to hold tight to each other when the next storm comes. Under the earth, always, they reach for each other, they grow such that their roots are intertwined and create a system of strength that is as resilient on a sunny day as it is in a hurricane. [Dandelions don’t know whethe

There is an art to flocking: staying separate enough not to crowd each other, aligned enough to maintain a shared direction, and cohesive enough to always move toward each other. (Responding to destiny together.) Destiny is a calling that creates a beautiful journey.