My review of 'Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Optimism', a book edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, published by Haymarket Books.

https://niklas.reviews/2023/03/27/solnit-lutunatabua-not-too-late/

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2000-not-too-late

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As I'm working on my book review of 'Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Optimism', edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, I'm struck by the blend of sobering views of reality and words of hope.

The quote is by Gloria Walton.

The book is published on 2023-04-03. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2000-not-too-late

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A quote from the soon–to–be–published book anthology 'Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility', edited by Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young-Lutunatabua.

'Difficult Is Not the Same as Impossible

Rebecca Solnit

It is late. We are deep in an emergency. But it is not too late, because the emergency is not over. The outcome is not decided. We1 are deciding it now. The longer we wait to act, the more limited the options, but scientists tell us there are good options and great urgency to embrace them while we can. An emergency is when a stable situation destabilizes, when the house catches fire or the dam breaks or institution implodes, when the failure or sudden change or crisis calls for urgent response. It’s when it becomes clear that the way things were is not how they’re going to be.

The word “we” is both problematic and necessary, so at the outset I want to acknowledge that not everyone is part of any version of “we”’ This book was put together with young people and newcomers to the climate movement in mind, with an expectation that most readers would be in the US and global north. Even there, the differences matter—between indigenous and settler, rich and poor, people who have lost homes and lives to the climate crisis and those who think of it as largely in the future. But there’s also the “we” that is all humanity, all who are impacted, and all beings alive now and yet to come. So, take this “we” with a grain of salt and allow some latitude for the necessity and inadequacy of the categories that make up language.'

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