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Wells, Lisa, 1982-
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Human ecology.
American essays -- 21st century.
American essays -- Women authors.
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Wells, Lisa, 1982-
Human ecology.
American essays -- 21st century.
American essays -- Women authors.
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Believers
:
making
a
life
at the
end
of the
world
/ Lisa Wells.
by
Wells, Lisa, 1982-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Call #:
814.6 W454b
Subjects
Human ecology.
American essays -- 21st century.
American essays -- Women authors.
ISBN:
9780374110253 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
336 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (309-318) and index.
Contents:
Across the desert our bread is blooming! -- On the rise and fall of a teenage idealist -- Promised lands -- Notes on a living trail -- The problem of other people -- To live together -- In the garden -- Restoring paradise.
Summary:
"Like most of us, Lisa Wells has spent years overwhelmed by increasingly urgent news of climate change on an apocalyptic scale. She did not need to be convinced of the stakes, but she could not find practical answers. She embarked on a pilgrimage, seeking wisdom and paths to action from outliers and visionaries, pragmatists and iconoclasts.
Believers
tracks through the lives of these people who are dedicated to repairing the earth and seemingly undaunted by the task ahead. Wells meets an itinerant gardener and misanthrope leading a group of nomadic activists in rewilding the American desert. She finds a group of environmentalist Christians practicing “watershed discipleship” in New Mexico and another group in Philadelphia turning the tools of violence into tools of farming -- guns into ploughshares. She watches the world’s greatest tracker teach others how to read a trail, and visits botanists who are restoring land overrun by invasive species and destructive humans. She talks with survivors of catastrophic wildfires in California as they try to rebuild in ways that acknowledge the fires will come again. Through empathic, critical portraits, Wells shows that these trailblazers are not so far beyond the rest of us. They have had the same realization, have accepted that we are living through a global catastrophe, but are trying to answer the next question: How do you make a
life
at the
end
of the
world
? Through this miraculous commingling of acceptance and activism, this focus on seeing clearly and moving forward, Wells is able to take the devastating news facing us all, every day, and inject a possibility of real hope.
Believers
demands transformation. It will change how you think about your own actions, about how you can still make an impact, and about how we might yet reckon with our inheritance."--Publisher.
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Essays.
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