Live Episode: A Climate Book Talk with Rebecca Solnit
A Matter of Degrees
Dr. Leah Stokes, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back for a bonus episode of A Matter of Degrees! We were lucky enough to sit down with Rebecca Solnit — author, historian, and climate activist — to talk about her newest climate anthology, Not Too Late. Leah and Nikayla Jefferson both wrote essays for the book and joined Rebecca onstage for this live episode.
Not Too Late gets at the tough, vital work of culture change and features diverse climate voices from around the world. In this episode, Leah, Nikayla, and Rebecca hold an expansive conversation about hope, love, and how to stay engaged in the climate movement.
Rebecca has written over twenty books on a diverse range of topics, including feminism, history, social change, and of course climate change. Our listeners may also recognize Nikayla as a guest host from our episodes on "The Stages of Black Climate Grief" and "The Journey of Justice40".
Read up on the top ten social drivers of climate change that Nikayla mentions in the episode. For more inspiration, visit the Not Too Late website, created by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua to shift the climate story from despair to possibility. Discover meaningful ways to take climate action via The All We Can Save Project.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a matter of degrees. |
| 0:03.7 | Stories for the Climate Curious. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Dr. Catherine Wilkinson. |
| 0:07.3 | And I'm Dr. Leah Stokes. |
| 0:13.6 | We are so excited to welcome you all to a special live episode of a matter of degrees. |
| 0:19.4 | Our third season is over, but this is an episode we couldn't |
| 0:22.7 | resist sharing with you because it features a conversation with the one and only Rebecca Solnit. |
| 0:28.2 | As folks probably know, Rebecca Solnit is an author, a historian, and a climate activist. Basically, |
| 0:34.4 | she's who I want to be when I grow up. You still got some work to do there, Leah. |
| 0:38.5 | So it's good. You've got time. Yes. We're always learning on a learning journey. |
| 0:43.6 | Rebecca has written over 20 books. You can see where I want to be here. That's amazing. |
| 0:48.0 | And her books are on everything from feminism to history to social change and, of course, climate change. |
| 0:54.0 | I am a huge fan. You might say I am |
| 0:56.0 | the number one fan of Rebecca Solman. I am also a really big fan, so I'll just slot in as your |
| 1:02.0 | deputy in the fan club, Leah. And Rebecca's latest book is a climate anthology, which is called |
| 1:09.6 | Not Too Late. It was created to really try to help shift |
| 1:13.4 | the climate story from despair to possibility. And it gets at the tough, vital work of culture change |
| 1:21.0 | by featuring a really diverse, brilliant set of climate voices from around the world. |
| 1:26.7 | Not Too Late, the book is part of a larger project |
| 1:29.5 | led by the co-editors Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young, Lutunataboa. Their idea is not just to make |
| 1:36.9 | people feel better, but really, as Rebecca says, offer a gateway for people to step through to become |
| 1:42.6 | fully engaged in climate activism. We need a lot more of |
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