 Popsugar Reading Challenge category: A book published in spring 2023
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story From Despair to Possibility, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua This essay collection is all too timely as this summer is hitting record-breaking temperatures. Several themes recur throughout the book: that neither the best case nor the worst case scenario is inevitable. That hope is not something you have, like a lottery ticket, but something you use, like an axe. And that action needs to be collective, not just individual. Solnit's essay returns to one of her favorite topics: the power of indirect consequences, how activism that fails in the moment may still reap rewards in the future. Most of the authors were unfamiliar to me. One exception was Kathy Jentil-Kijiner, whose powerful writing I'd encountered through last year's Popsugar challenge. She is one of several Pacific Islanders represented in the book. Lutunatabua writes movingly about her experience of miscarriage, and choosing to get pregnant again, as both metaphor for this moment in history and a literal expression of faith in the future, creating a better world for her son.
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