climatecrisis

It’s not easy to remain optimistic in the face of continued bad news about the climate crisis and the unwillingness of too many leaders to seriously address it effectively. What keeps my hope from sinking beneath waves of doomscrolling, however, are other leaders—individuals and groups of the grassroots—who have refused to stay silent about the crisis and have put themselves, sometimes physically, in the path of a fossil fuel industry determined to keep pumping greenhouse gases into our already over-burdened atmosphere until every last drop of hydrocarbons is extracted and burned.…