Five
compelling essays and fifty stunning portraits and profiles of
American environmental activists
This second volume in the Americans Who Tell the Truth series
features Robert Shetterly's magnificent color portraits and profiles
of fifty environmental and climate activists—people who diagnose
the truth of the greatest crisis humanity has ever confronted and
take action. The book also features original essays by revered
environmentalists Bill McKibben, Leah Penniman, Diane Wilson, Bill
Bigelow, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, whose words illuminate the plight
and its causes, and point a way forward.
Along with the genocide of Indigenous peoples and the institution
of slavery, the third tragic and persistent mistake of the leaders of
this country was to attempt to separate economic and political
culture from the laws of nature—to operate on the basis that nature
could be exploited endlessly for profit. The damage done to the Earth
and to the future of life on the planet is incalculable. The people
portrayed here have bought warnings, offered solutions, and organized
movements to restore ecological sanity.
