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This Sweet Earth
About this book
"A helpful and page-turning guide to protecting the planet amid today's climate change crisis." --Library Journal
What does it mean to be a parent in the age of climate change?
We are living in an era of climate collapse. We feel it in small ways: when the snow falls less or the cherry blossoms bloom too early. And in large ways: when our streets flood and entire towns burn to the ground. Climate anxiety touches nearly everything we do, but perhaps nothing so intimately as our parenting. It leaves an impossible task for those of us raising children. What do we tell our kids when the air quality is too bad to go ride bikes? What skills will they need if systems collapse? And what do we do with the fear, grief, and anger we feel as parents?
Parent, activist, and writer Lydia Wylie-Kellermann wrestles with these questions and dares to argue that while the future remains unknown, there is still awe and wonder, love and struggle, gratitude and overwhelming joy to be found. As we raise our children toward this uncertain future, Wylie-Kellermann helps us see that those same children shift our posture, slow us down, and invite us to fall in love with the ground on which we stand. At this turning point in humanity, we can choose to shift our lives away from death-dealing profit systems toward life-giving, generous systems. Here is the moment when we must choose to fight like hell for climate justice. And we can do it by nurturing a deeper relationship with this sweet earth in all its beauty, wonder, and wisdom, walking alongside our children.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Wading into the Flood
- 2. Choosing Life in the Face of Death
- 3. Can’t Save What You Don’t Love
- 4. Community Changes Everything
- 5. Searching for the Sacred
- 6. Courage to Speak Truth
- 7. One Hand of Resistance
- 8. On the Other Hand, Creation
- 9. Touching Death
- 10. Walking in Gratitude
- 11. The Inescapable Conversation on Technology
- 12. Teach Your Children Well
- 13. The Antidote of Joy
- 14. Reconceiving Ourselves as Creatures
- Conclusion: After the Rain Fell
- Final Food for Thought
- Epilogue: To Look Out My Window
- A Blessing from the Seasons
- Acknowledgments
- Further Reading: If I could gift you a basket full of books
- Dreams Taking Root at Kirkridge
- 100 Practical Ideas
- A Gathered Watershed Prayer
- Notes