All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (2020) is a collection of essays and poems edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson. Johnson, a marine biologist and policy expert is the co-founder of a nonprofit called Urban Ocean Lab, co-founder of a climate initiative called The All We Can Save Project, and a co-creator of the podcast How to Save a Planet. Wilkinson is an author, teacher, and strategist who has written a number of books on climate and is an editor-in-chief at Project Drawdown. She is also a public speaker and a visiting professor at Sewanee.

Summary

All We Can Save seeks to inspire the reader to feel hopeful for the future. The book includes calls to action, significant scientific studies about nature, and personal stories about climate activism’s successes and failures. The book centers women’s voices, as the climate movement often overlooks their ingenuity, expertise, and unique perspectives. The editors have organized the essays into eight different sections with titles describing various important parts of climate change activism. Together, these sections provide a sense of the state of climate activism in the United States and how one can make a difference.