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An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers
With global warming projected to rocket past the 1.5C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the impossible news of our climate doom.
He searches out eight of todays leading climate thinkers from activist Tim DeChristopher to collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht, grassroots strategist adrienne maree brown, eco-philosopher Joana Macy, and Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer asking them: Is it really the end of the world? and if so, now what?
With gallows humor and a broken heart, Boyd steers readers through their climate angst as he walks his own. Boyds journey takes him from storm-battered coastlines to pipeline blockades and hopelessness workshops. Along the way, he maps out our existential options, and tackles some familiar dilemmas: Should I bring kids into such a world? Can I lose hope when others cant afford to? and Why the fuck am I recycling?
He finds answers that will surprise, inspire, and maybe even make you laugh. Drawing on wisdom traditions Eastern, Western, and Indigenous, Boyd crafts an insightful and irreverent guide for achieving a better catastrophe.
This is vital reading for everyone navigating climate anxiety and grief as our world hurtles towards an unthinkable crisis.
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They say it takes a village. This book took a medium-sized city.
Without the many friends and colleagues who listened to me and encouraged me; who read and edited the book; who suffered alongside me (and suffered me), this book would simply not exist. It is a co-creation of us all. Huge thanks to every one of you.
Let me especially thank the eight remarkable people Guy McPherson, Tim DeChristopher, Meg Wheatley, Gopal Dayaneni, Joanna Macy, Jamey Hecht, adrienne maree brown, and Robin Wall Kimmerer who were willing to sit down with me and my voice recorder, share their ideas, and trust me to tell their stories. Beyond interview subjects, they are the spirit guides of this work.
Mad respect to my patient and ruthless editors-for-hire, Nick Hunt and Virginia Vitzthum, who each came in at a critical moment in the books development and got me to kill off some darlings, and see it all with fresh eyes. They made the book leaner and wiser. If you run across a passage that seems extraneous or tone deaf, definitely blame me, not them.
To the many, many reader-editors Laura Dresser, Janice Fine, Dave Cash, Rae Abileah, Duncan Meisel, Britt Wray, Dave Mitchell, Josh Bolotsky, Logan Price, Onnesha Roychoudhuri, James Levy, Eden James, Leah Marie Fairbank, and others who spent a portion of their short lives reading (and in some cases, re-reading) the manuscript at various stages, I am forever grateful. I owe you all big time.
Every Don Quixote needs a Sancho Panza, every Bertie Wooster needs his Jeeves. Mine was Harry Cash, who not only resampled our jpegs and dotted our is in fine Chicago Manual of Style style, but like his literary forebears, was maybe the wiser of the pair.
Big thanks to the team at New Society, including Murray Reiss, Sue Custance, Diane McIntosh, Greg Green, John McKercher, and especially Rob West for choosing Marmite and taking a risk on this unusual book.
Deep appreciation to all the movers and thinkers who contributed ideas and stories to me directly, including: Richard Heinberg, John Jordan, Rachel Schragis, Gan Golan, Paul Kingsnorth, Joshua Kahn Russel, Josephine Ferorelli, Jeremy Sherman, Meg McIntyre, Carson and Benjamin Donnelly-Fine, Brett Fleishman, Bob Rivera, Charlotte Du Cann, Michael Barrish, Dan Kinch, Greg Schwedock, Alejandro Frid, and Paul Kiefer.
A shout out to the many beautiful places who offered me a place to write, including: the Blue Mountain Center, the Mesa Refuge, Lacawac Sanctuary, Photon Farm, the New York Writers Room, the Inn at Richmond, Mud Cafe on East 1st, the Suffolk Street Community Garden, and the good people of Gloversville, New York.
Big appreciation to Sarah Mason, Adrian Carpenter, Will Etundi, Andy Menconi, Alex Kelly, Matthew Hinders-Anderson, Josiah Werning, Joel Pett, Gaia Kile, Jason Stewart, Simone ODonovan, Jake Ratner, Movement Generation, the Hemispheric Institute, Robert van Waarden, Raul de Lima, Twyla Frid Lotenberg, and others for their multifarious assistance.
A very special thank you to Katie Peyton Hofstadter for having my back, expanding my vision, and putting up with me and my dark musings.
Deep bow to my comrades at Beautiful Trouble and the Climate Clock for holding down their respective forts during the times I had to bury myself in the manuscript.
A signal thank you to Lois Canright and Chuck Collins for keeping vigil with me all along the way including going on a virtual hunger strike (yes, they did that, and the pics looked real) until I finished the book.
And finally, a supreme thanks to everyone, friend and stranger, striving against the odds for a better world.
Wherever you fall on the EndTimes Enneagram, theres no shortage of stuff you can (still) do that matters:
Warrior
Sunrise Movement sunrisemovement.org
Climate Justice Alliance climatejusticealliance.org
Movement Generation movementgeneration.org
NDN Collective ndncollective.org
Engineer
Project Drawdown drawdown.org
Climate Engineering ucsusa.org/resources/what-climate-engineering
Healer
Climate Awakening climateawakening.org
Dr. Daniel Foor and Ancestral Healing ancestralmedicine.org
The Climate Ribbon theclimateribbon.org
Make Beauty in Wounded Places radicaljoy.org
Prepper
The Prepared theprepared.com
The Provident Prepper theprovidentprepper.org
Good Neighbor
Transition Town Network transitionnetwork.org
Resilience resilience.org
Policy Ninja
Richard Heinberg richardheinberg.com/bookshelf
Beautiful Solutions beautifulsolutions.info
Storyteller
Dark Mountain dark-mountain.net
Yale Program on Climate Communication climatecommunication.yale.edu
Center for Story-Based Strategy storybasedstrategy.org
Rebel
Extinction Rebellion rebellion.earth
Greta and Fridays for Future fridaysforfuture.org
Artist
Artists Unite for a Green New Deal usdac.us/gnd
Artists & Climate Change artistsandclimatechange.com
Philosopher
John Michael Greer ecosophia.net
Timothy Morton tinyurl.com/TimothyMortonLongRead
Seer
Greenfaith greenfaith.org
Interfaith Power & Light interfaithpowerandlight.org
Starhawk starhawk.org
Elder
Third Act thirdact.org
Wisdom of the Elders
Turtle Lodge turtlelodge.org
Original Instructions innertraditions.com/books/original-instructions
Raging Grannies raginggrannies.org
Timekeeper
Climate Action Tracker climateactiontracker.org
Climate Clock climateclock.world
Trickster
Crazy Wisdom
Beautiful Trouble beautifultrouble.org
Andrew Boyd is a writer, humorist, activist, and CEO (Chief Existential Officer) of the Climate Clock, a global campaign that blends art, science, and grassroots organizing to get the world to #ActInTime. He also co-created the grief-storytelling ritual the Climate Ribbon and led the 2000s-era satirical campaign Billionaires for Bush. Andrews previous books include Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe and Lifes Little Deconstruction Book: Self-Help for the Post-Hip. His lifelong ambition, cribbed from Milan Kundera, is to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form. Andrew lives in New York City.
- Al Gore Likens Global Warming to Nazi Threat, Los Angeles Times, July 8, 2009. https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/07/al-gore-likens-global-warming-to-nazi-threat.html.
- Antonio Gramsci. In Oxford Essential Quotations, edited by Ratcliffe, Susan.: Oxford University Press, https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00018416.
- Bloch, Nadine, and Rae Abileah. Activism during the Coronavirus Pandemic, The Commons, February 21, 2022. https://commonslibrary.org/beautiful-troubles-guide-to-activism-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic/.
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