Message for You and West Virginia and our Earth!
The authors continue to add meaning, advice and warnings!
From the Announcement by Mary Anne Hitt, Author & Activist, Shepherdstown, April 5, 2023
It’s publication day! I have an essay in this book edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young-Lutunatabua, and the title sums up everything I’ve ever tried to say about climate change in three words – “Not Too Late.”
I practically fell out of my chair when Rebecca reached out and asked me to contribute an essay to this new climate anthology. The full title of the book is “Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Conversation from Despair to Possibility,” and Rebecca is one of my favorite writers because she’s constantly changing important conversations from despair to possibility. In her work she reminds us the future has not yet been written, and persuasively makes the case that each one of us can be its author, inspiring us with the stories of those before us who built a better world against the odds, who are doing so alongside us even today.
My essay is a love letter from our clean energy future, imagining a day in the all-important year of 2030 when we’re looking back at the better world we’ve created, because we actually stepped up and tackled the climate crisis. I think this is possible down in my bones, with every fiber of my being, and every morning I wake up trying to live and love and work from that place. We’re the last generation of people with the power and opportunity to turn this crisis around, if we can block out the cynical voices telling us nothing can be done.
I’m astounded by the amazing company I’m in here, writers and leaders I love and admire including Leah Stokes, Adrienne Maree Brown, Mary Annaïse Heglar, Nikayla Jefferson, Jacquelyn Gill, and many more. Thank you Rebecca and Thelma for bringing this vision to life, and for including me as part of it. I think it’s just what the world needs right now.
Mary Anne Hitt
You can pick up a copy at your local bookstore – it’s on the shelf in Shepherdstown at Four Seasons Books – or online. More here: www.nottoolateclimate.com
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