Climate Resilience: How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change

By Kylie Flanagan

Book Overview

An intersectional primer for saving the planet: place-based perspectives and community-led tools for fighting climate change--for readers of The Intersectional Environmentalist and All We Can Save

"An essential, inspired chorus of voices echoing the urgency of action in the fight against climate change." --Kirkus Reviews

In Climate Resilience, climate justice and resilience strategist Kylie Flanagan invites us to see and act beyond status-quo solutions, Big Tech promises...and everything we're usually told about how to save the planet.

Centering the voices of Native Rights activists, queer liberation ecologists, youth climate-justice organizers, Latinx wilderness activists, and others on the front lines, Climate Resilience urges us toward a vision of climate care that invests in place-based, community-led projects focused on:

Relationship RepairEcological RestorationEconomic RegenerationCollective CareCommunity AdaptationCultural StrategyPeople Power
Each section offers practical blueprints for engaging with different aspects of climate-change action through mutual aid, seed-saving, community-owned energy, community safety plans, and more, and includes a range of ideas for readers to apply these strategies in their own communities.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623179025
• ISBN13: 9781623179021
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"