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

“Every [natural] soundscape…generates its own unique signature, one that contains incredible amounts of information,” explains Bernie Krause, and when we listen closely, it “gives us incredibly valuable tools by which to evaluate the health of a habitat across the entire spectrum of life.” The voices of the natural world can inform us when an ecosy
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investing in the weft and weave between us.
Joy Harjo • All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Moms Clean Air Force.
Joy Harjo • All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
If I can’t save us then let me feel you happy and safe under my chin. If this will drown or burn then let us drink starlight nap under trees sing on beaches— the morning rush to sit indoors is for what, again? If we are dying then let me rip open and bleed Love, spill it, spend it see how much there is the reward for misers is what, again? If this
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The future is likely to demand more of us than we know how to give,
Joy Harjo • All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Soul and soil are not separate. Neither are wind and spirit, nor water and tears. We are eroding and evolving, at once, like the red rock landscape before me. Our grief is our love. Our love will be our undoing as we quietly disengage from the collective madness of the patriarchal mind that says aggression is the way forward.
Joy Harjo • All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
[And yet billions of dollars are being allocated to this effort. What does it say that spinning a story about humans moving into a radioactive vacuum resonates more strongly with many people than our chances of reducing greenhouse gas emissions?
Joy Harjo • All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
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
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Though Indigenous peoples comprise only about 5 percent of the global population, our lands hold approximately 80 percent of the world’s biodiversity and an estimated 40 to 50 percent of the remaining protected places in the world.