As If We Were Staying
Spencer R. ScottMostly trying to make my parents, Carl Sagan and Octavia Butler, proud.
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𝑴𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝑹𝒖𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒆: The Importance of Contemplating Collapse
Thomas Cole “The Course of Empire: Destruction” (1836)
I. What Myths Are Made Of
Only by seizing “the key images, myths, archetypes, eschatologies, and ecstasies,” poet and environmental activist Gary Snyder insists, can we achieve a...
Where Giants Will Stand
Old-Growth Coastal Redwood in Guerneville, California. Photo by Spencer R. Scott.
Cora and Rosa caught me in the garden. They rode their electric bikes under the arched passion fruit vines and into our driveway. I had just finished pruning...
With disfiguring rage, what do we do? What action can we take?
“Charge” Käthe Kollwitz’s Peasants’ War Series (ca. 1901–1908)
With what dwindling energy we may have left in our overburdened organs of outrage, Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!, summoned a second wind. In response to Trump’s achievement of...
The World That Shaped Us Is Ending
Now that I have finished my book, I might actually be able to explain what it’s about. In ’s How To Write an Autobiographical Novel he describes a novel as “a thought that is too long to fit in your head all at once until after it is all wr...
No re-arrangement of words is going to stack those bricks
W. S. Harris, Capital and Labor, from Public Domain Review.
My husband is done with creatives. For too long, creatives have been the boss. “No more!” He says, “This is the year of the producer.” Producers are the boss now.
Ever since he...
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Spencer is a PhD biologist, environmentalist and cofounder of Solar Punk Farms, a regenerative farm and community hub dedicated to building a more resilient future. His book, As If We Were Staying (HarperOne), comes out on Nov. 10th.
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