The river, the trees, the soil, other alienated people... the more time you spend with each, the more attention you give to each, and the more you love each, the less alone in all of this you will feel. It is from this place that others can be invited. Hearts may even change.

There is, however, one climate action that I believe to be truly and universally effective. It is concrete and accessible. Not only can it make a real difference for the more-than-human world, but it can also act as a salve for the painful and paralyzing dissonance of the anguished position many of us have internalized. This action is familiar to... See more