What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice

What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice

by Wen Stephenson
What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice

What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice

by Wen Stephenson

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Overview

An urgent, on-the-ground look at some of the “new American radicals” who have laid everything on the line to build a stronger climate justice movement

The science is clear: catastrophic climate change, by any humane definition, is upon us. At the same time, the fossil-fuel industry has doubled down, economically and politically, on business as usual. We face an unprecedented situation—a radical situation. As an individual of conscience, how will you respond?

In 2010, journalist Wen Stephenson woke up to the true scale and urgency of the catastrophe bearing down on humanity, starting with the poorest and most vulnerable everywhere, and confronted what he calls “the spiritual crisis at the heart of the climate crisis.” Inspired by others who refused to retreat into various forms of denial and fatalism, he walked away from his career in mainstream media and became an activist, joining those working to build a transformative movement for climate justice in America.

In What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other, Stephenson tells his own story and offers an up-close, on-the-ground look at some of the remarkable and courageous people—those he calls “new American radicals”—who have laid everything on the line to build and inspire this fast-growing movement: old-school environmentalists and young climate-justice organizers, frontline community leaders and Texas tar-sands blockaders, Quakers and college students, evangelicals and Occupiers. Most important, Stephenson pushes beyond easy labels to understand who these people really are, what drives them, and what they’re ultimately fighting for. He argues that the movement is less like environmentalism as we know it and more like the great human-rights and social-justice struggles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from abolitionism to civil rights. It’s a movement for human solidarity.

This is a fiercely urgent and profoundly spiritual journey into the climate-justice movement at a critical moment—in search of what climate justice, at this late hour, might yet mean.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807088418
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 10/06/2015
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 838,366
File size: 575 KB

About the Author

Wen Stephenson, an independent journalist and climate activist, is a contributing writer for the Nation. Formerly an editor at the Atlantic and the Boston Globe, he has also written about climate, culture, and politics for Slate, the New York Times, Grist, and the Boston Phoenix.

Table of Contents

Preface

Prologue: Walking Home from Walden

PART ONE

1. The New Abolitionists

2. Prophets

3. Organizing for Survival

PART TWO

4. We Have to Shut It Down

5. A Long-Haul Kind of Calling

6. Too Late for What?

Epilogue: And Yet

Acknowledgments

Action Resources

Selected Bibliography
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