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

If politics is a fight to elect people who reflect and share our values, policy is a fight to actually enact those values—to mold the world, through the work of government, into what we think it should be.] It’s a fight to see whose problems get addressed, how those problems are addressed, and who benefits.
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
... See moreJoy 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
investing in the weft and weave between us.
Joy Harjo • All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
The climate crisis is a leadership crisis. For far too long, far too many leaders have been focused on profit, power, and prestige; and many of those committed to change have been ineffective. The climate crisis is the result of social, political, and economic systems that are wildly skewed to benefit those who already have so much.
Joy Harjo • All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
I am afraid of dying, sure, but so far, it hasn’t been an issue.
Joy Harjo • All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
[“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.”]
Joy Harjo • 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
... See moreJoy Harjo • All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
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.