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,

I am afraid of dying, sure, but so far, it hasn’t been an issue.

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

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

[We have words in our language that help to remind us of the balance that this relationship requires. One of those words is mamabezu; it means “he or she has enough.” It is an acknowledgment that an individual has what they need to live their life with a sense of safety and dignity. Another word, alabezu, means “everyone has enough.” The “everyone”

[“Compassion without anger can become merely sentiment or pity. Knowledge without anger can stagnate into mere cynicism and apathy. Anger improves lucidity, persistence, audacity, and memory.”]

[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?

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.

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.