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How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet
by Jason Dove Mark
A rallying cry and resistance manual from one of the leaders breathing new life into the environmental movement.
As the climate emergency worsens and biodiversity shrinks, we humans get used to it―we adapt, we normalize, we forget. Scientists call this "shifting baseline syndrome" and warn that it's why we are increasingly sleepwalking toward disaster. In this positive and inspiring manifesto, the environmental activist and longtime editor-in-chief of Sierra magazine Jason Dove Mark offers an antidote, focusing on four simple but powerful rules that everyone can use to resist environmental amnesia: Go outside. Bear witness. Make a record. Pass it on. Mark makes the case for easy, everyday practices that can help us "remember the Earth" and support environmental conservation, restoration, and rewilding. And he shares moving examples of citizen scientists, birdwatchers, mountain climbers, and fishermen across the country who are putting them into practice. The Earth Said Remember Me is a hopeful, achievable prescription for protecting the planet, one citizen at a time.
"A passionate cry of resistance to bear witness to the natural world and remember its abundance." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"While Mark's suggestion that the planet can be restored by people getting outside and sharing their stories may strike some readers as naive, he offers a welcome antidote to doomsday reports." —Publishers Weekly
"This beautiful and urgent book will convince you that tending to our memories of the earth―done together, with our hands in the dirt and our eyes lifted―is not only resistance, but a kind of joy, a hopeful and practical way of building a more sustainable tomorrow in the name of wonder." ―Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders
"Full of hope and wisdom, The Earth Said Remember Me is a moving guide to how recording nature's wonder and loss can help us mend the future. Jason Dove Mark makes a powerful case for why we must chronicle the fireflies that lit the woods before the fires, the sea stars that lined the beaches before the blight. Then he shows us how. Families, citizen groups, and classes should read it together to record, to remember―and to resist." ―Cynthia Barnett, author of The Sound of the Sea
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Jason Dove Mark has served as editor-in-chief of Sierra and editor of Earth Island Journal. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Atlantic. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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